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-!  !! Labial !! Pal. Labial !! Dental / Alveolar !! Lab. Dental !! Alveolo-Palatal !! Retroflex !! Palatal !! Velar !! Uvular !! Lab. Palatal !! Lab. Velar !! Lab. Uvular !! Glottal
+!  !! Labial !! Pal. Labial !! Dental / Alveolar !! Lab. Dental !! Alveolo-Palatal !! Retroflex !! Palatal !! Velar !! Uvular !! Lab. Palatal !! Lab. Velar !! Glottal
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-| Nasal || m || mʲ || n || nʷ || || || ɲ  || (ŋ) ||  || (ɲʷ) || (ŋʷ) || ||
+| Nasal || m || mʲ || n || nʷ || || || ɲ  || ŋ* ||  || (ɲʷ) || ŋʷ* ||
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-| Voiced Stop || b || bʲ || d || dʷ || || || ɟ || g || || (ɟʷ) || gʷ ~ gb || ||
+| Voiced Stop || b || bʲ || d || dʷ || || || ɟ || g || || (ɟʷ) || gʷ ~ gb ||
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-| Voiceless Stop || p || pʲ || t || tʷ ||  || || c || k || || (cʷ) || kʷ kp || || ʔ
+| Voiceless Stop || p || pʲ || t || tʷ ||  || || c || k || || (cʷ) || kʷ ~ kp || ʔ
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-| Voiced Sibilant Affricate || || ||  || || dʑ || || || || || || || ||
+| Voiced Sibilant Affricate || || ||  || || dʑ || || || || || || ||
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-| Voiceless Sibilant Affricate || || || || || tɕ || ||  || || || || || ||
+| Voiceless Sibilant Affricate || || || || || tɕ || ||  || || || || ||
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-| Spirant Affricate || || || tθ || || || ʈʂ || || || || || || ||
+| Spirant Affricate || || || tθ || || || ʈʂ || || || || || ||
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-| Voiced Sibilant Fricative |||| || z || zʷ ~ zw || ʑ || || || || || || || ||
+| Voiced Sibilant Fricative |||| || z || zʷ || ʑ || || || || || || ||
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-| Voiceless Sibilant Fricative || ||  || s || sʷ ~ sw || ɕ ||  ||  || || || || || ||
+| Voiceless Sibilant Fricative || ||  || s || sʷ || ɕ ||  ||  || || || || ||
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-| Spirant Fricative || f || fʲ || || || || ʂ || ç ~ ɬ || || χ ~ x || || || ||
+| Spirant Fricative || f || fʲ || || || || ʂ || ç ~ ɬ || || χ ~ x || || ||
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-| Flap / Trill || ⱱ ~ ʀʷ || ⱱʲ || || || ɾʲ || ɽ ||  || || (ʀ) || || || ||
+| Flap / Trill || ⱱ ~ ʀʷ || ⱱʲ || || || ɾʲ || ɽ ||  || || (ʀ) || || ||
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-| Lateral || ||  || || || || || ʎ || || ɫ || (ʎʷ) || || ɫʷ ||
+| Lateral || ||  || || || || || ʎ || || ɫ || (ʎʷ) || ɫʷ ||  ||
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-| Semivowel || || || || ||  || || j || || || ɥ || w || ||
+| Semivowel || || || || ||  || || j || || || ɥ || w ||
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 * Except for /ɥ/, labialised palatal consonants such as /cʷ/ are rare. They only occur in loanwords. Before front vowels, most speakers merge them with labialised velar consonants, and before back vowels, most speakers merge them with plain palatal consonants.
+* Labialised velar stops /kʷ/ and /gʷ/ are in free variation with their doubly articulated counterparts.
+* For the purposes of phonology, it is useful to draw a distinction between sibilant and spirant (non-sibilant) affricates and fricatives. Sibilants contrast for voicing while spirants do not.
+* Between sonorants, /tθ/ is lenited to [θ].
+* A sound change is currently in progress which is changing the palatal fricative /ç/ to a lateral fricative /ɬ/, especially in clusters.
+* /χ/ has the allophone /x/ between sonorants.
 * /ʀ/ is only found in loanwords. Many speakers merge it into /ɽ/.
-* Labialised labial consonants /mʷ/, /bʷ/, /pʷ/ (and sometimes /fʷ/~/ɸ/) occur as separate phonemes in a few dialects. But most dialects have merged these with the plain labials.
+* Labialised labial consonants /mʷ/, /bʷ/, /pʷ/ occur as separate phonemes in a few dialects. But most dialects have merged these with the plain labials.
 ===Phonotactics===
-Underylingly, the only syllables permitted are CV and CCV. The latter is rare, and only a few consonant clusters are permitted, namely /pf/, /tf/, /sf/ and /pç/~/ps/~/pɬ/. Notably, almost all Seggeynni speakers consider these to be single consonants.
+Underylingly, the only syllables permitted are CV and CCV. The latter is rare, and only a few consonant clusters are permitted, namely /pf/, /tf/, /sf/, /kf/, /pχ/, /sχ/, /kχ/ and /pç/~/ps/~/pɬ/.
 ===Stress===