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| style="border-right: 0;" | pʰ | | style="border-right: 0;" | pʰ | ||
| style="border-left: 0; border-right:0;" | [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]] | | style="border-left: 0; border-right:0;" | [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]] | ||
| style="border-left: 0;" | pʼ | | style="border-left: 0;" | ɓ~pʼ | ||
| style="border-right: 0;" | tʰ | | style="border-right: 0;" | tʰ | ||
| style="border-left: 0; border-right:0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] | | style="border-left: 0; border-right:0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] | ||
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In the Amcel, Mondo, Stera, and Rot'a dialect families of Hatzonian, the velar nasal /ŋ/ is merged with the alveolar nasal /n/: the first three only have /n/, while the last only has /ŋ/. | In the Amcel, Mondo, Stera, and Rot'a dialect families of Hatzonian, the velar nasal /ŋ/ is merged with the alveolar nasal /n/: the first three only have /n/, while the last only has /ŋ/. | ||
Soleya Hatzonian phones ejective consonants as | Soleya Hatzonian phones ejective consonants as velarized, and thus can be considered to have merged /k/ and /k’/ as that consonant is already velar. | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
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Nasal vowels tend to be longer than their non-nasal counterparts, and derive from historic short nasal, while long nasals have effectively been shortened, and may still phonetically nasalize the preceding vowel. | Nasal vowels tend to be longer than their non-nasal counterparts, and derive from historic short nasal, while long nasals have effectively been shortened, and may still phonetically nasalize the preceding vowel. The missing nasals are prototypically merged with the adjacent nasal of the same column, though [ɛ̃ ɔ̃] do exist in some dialects. | ||
The open-mid central vowel is the most variable vowel cross-dialectally, with various dialects pronouncing it as any of [ɘ ə ɵ ɜ ɐ ɞ]; this may also depend on its surroundings. For example, Soleya Hatzonian pronounces it normally as [ɜ], but rounds it to [ɞ] before labial and labialized consonants. | The open-mid central vowel is the most variable vowel cross-dialectally, with various dialects pronouncing it as any of [ɘ ə ɵ ɜ ɐ ɞ]; this may also depend on its surroundings. For example, Soleya Hatzonian pronounces it normally as [ɜ], but rounds it to [ɞ] before labial and labialized consonants. | ||