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The term '''emphatic''' is a controversial one, introduced by Crossing, but refers to a certain form of assimilation in the Tsani language. Following long vowels, fricative consonants and /r/ change their pronunciation.

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When in coda position of a word, consonants are pronounced with [[w:no audible release|no audible release]]. This applies to all oral occlusives, or plosives. Ejective plosives are never found in final position and thus never unreleased. D'Ivoir observed a tendency for final occlusive consonants to be fricativised in certain dialects. He did not want to go as far as to call it phonemic, however.

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!

!p

!t

!q

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! Plain

|/p/

|/t/

|/c ~ q/

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!Unreleased

|[p̚]

|[t̚]

|[c̚ ~ q̚]

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===Suprasegmentals===