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At word-final position, the voicing distinction in unaspirated plosives is lost, and unaspirated plosives are unreleased.
At word-final position, the voicing distinction in unaspirated plosives is lost, and unaspirated plosives are unreleased.
Some consonants can be syllabic, namely ''m n ng l r''.


===Vowels===
===Vowels===
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Stress is always initial.
Stress is always initial.
===Prosody===
===Prosody===
==Orthography==
Anbirese is written in the Talmic alphabet; reflecting the partially koineized origin of the language, the orthography is mostly based on dialects ''without'' dueum beopchik (deletion of initial ''r'', and/or ''n'' before ''i'' or ''j'').


==Vocabulary==
==Vocabulary==