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*All sonorants can be syllabic. | *All sonorants can be syllabic. | ||
**Syllabic [β̞] and | **Syllabic [β̞] and /ɉ/ are fricated in most regions and in standard and Royal Knrawi. | ||
**In some regions and in standard (but not Royal) Knrawi all sonorants are syllabified before consonants or word boundaries except before syllabic vowels/consonants. | **In some regions and in standard (but not Royal) Knrawi all sonorants are syllabified before consonants or word boundaries except before syllabic vowels/consonants. | ||
*Alveolar consonants become bilabial adjacent to /m/, /ʊ/, and labialized consonants. | *Alveolar consonants become bilabial adjacent to /m/, /ʊ/, and labialized consonants. | ||
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*The conditions for approximants (not including non-syllabic vowels) being realized as fricatives varies by region. | *The conditions for approximants (not including non-syllabic vowels) being realized as fricatives varies by region. | ||
**In standard Knrawi they are realized as fricatives on word boundaries and after [j] or [w]. | **In standard Knrawi they are realized as fricatives on word boundaries and after [j] or [w]. | ||
**In Royal Knrawi fortition does not occur except in syllabic [β̞] and /ɉ/ which are realized as [β̍] and [ɣ̍]. | |||
*[β̞] and [w] (but not [β]) are merged in most regions and in standard Knrawi. | *[β̞] and [w] (but not [β]) are merged in most regions and in standard Knrawi. | ||
**In standard Knrawi the merged value is [w]. | **In standard Knrawi the merged value is [w]. | ||