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====Voiceless consonants==== | |||
Kivatu has more voiceless consonants than other languages. In particular, voiceless nasals(/m̥/ and /n̥/) and voiceless approximants(/w̥/ and /j̥/) are common in the language. Of these abnormal voiceless consonants, /w̥/ is the most common across most vocabulary, and thus has its own letter, ⟨v⟩, while the other voiceless consonants simply use the letter for their more common voiced counterpart, with a ⟨’⟩ added, e.g. ''j'' [j] and ''j’'' [j̥]. | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||