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| 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-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/.

Soleya Hatzonian phones ejective consonants as ~~uvularized in unstressed syllables~~, and thus can be considered to have merged /q/ and /qʼ/ as that consonant is already ~~uvular~~.

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===

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Nasal vowels tend to be longer than their non-nasal counterparts, and derive from a historic ~~uvular~~ nasal ~~[ɴ]~~, ~~which elsewhere has~~ merged with the ~~velar~~ nasal ~~/ŋ/~~.

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.

===Prosody===

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===Phonotactics===

Hatzonian is a (C)(C)V(A) language, where A represents any of the consonants in the Approximant row of the phoneme table above. The allowed CC sequences are ~~any~~ nasal or the sibilant /s/ followed by a plosive, the same consonant twice (though if it is an ejective, the first consonant of the pair is plain), any non-ejective plosive followed by the alveolar trill /r/ or the non-lateral approximants /j w/, and either the plain or aspirated alveolar stops followed by a sibilant (though these become the alveolar affricates /ts tsʰ dz/). A word cannot start with a geminated consonant, but can start with any other onset besides /h/.

Hatzonian is a (C)(C)V(A) language, where A represents any of the consonants in the Approximant row of the phoneme table above. The allowed CC sequences are the corresponding nasal or the sibilant /s/ followed by a plosive, the same consonant twice (though if it is an ejective, the first consonant of the pair is plain), any non-ejective plosive followed by the alveolar trill /r/ or the non-lateral approximants /j w/, and either the plain or aspirated alveolar stops followed by a sibilant (though these become the alveolar affricates /ts tsʰ dz/). Beginning nasals have a tendency to blur syllables together, bunching up with the prior vowel phonetically in many dialects, but in some dialects, it is more parsimonious to regard it as prenasalization, and as such it is not considered a coda consonant phonemically. A word cannot start with a geminated consonant, but can start with any other onset besides /h/.

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 | style="border-right: 0;" | pʰ
 | 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-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/.
-Soleya Hatzonian phones ejective consonants as uvularized in unstressed syllables, and thus can be considered to have merged /q/ and /qʼ/ as that consonant is already uvular.
+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===
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-Nasal vowels tend to be longer than their non-nasal counterparts, and derive from a historic uvular nasal [ɴ], which elsewhere has merged with the velar nasal /ŋ/.
+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.
 ===Prosody===
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 ===Phonotactics===
-Hatzonian is a (C)(C)V(A) language, where A represents any of the consonants in the Approximant row of the phoneme table above. The allowed CC sequences are any nasal or the sibilant /s/ followed by a plosive, the same consonant twice (though if it is an ejective, the first consonant of the pair is plain), any non-ejective plosive followed by the alveolar trill /r/ or the non-lateral approximants /j w/, and either the plain or aspirated alveolar stops followed by a sibilant (though these become the alveolar affricates /ts tsʰ dz/). A word cannot start with a geminated consonant, but can start with any other onset besides /h/.
+Hatzonian is a (C)(C)V(A) language, where A represents any of the consonants in the Approximant row of the phoneme table above. The allowed CC sequences are the corresponding nasal or the sibilant /s/ followed by a plosive, the same consonant twice (though if it is an ejective, the first consonant of the pair is plain), any non-ejective plosive followed by the alveolar trill /r/ or the non-lateral approximants /j w/, and either the plain or aspirated alveolar stops followed by a sibilant (though these become the alveolar affricates /ts tsʰ dz/). Beginning nasals have a tendency to blur syllables together, bunching up with the prior vowel phonetically in many dialects, but in some dialects, it is more parsimonious to regard it as prenasalization, and as such it is not considered a coda consonant phonemically. A word cannot start with a geminated consonant, but can start with any other onset besides /h/.
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