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! rowspan=2| [[w:Plosive consonant|Plosive]] | ! rowspan=2| [[w:Plosive consonant|Plosive]] | ||
! <small>[[w:Aspirated consonant|aspirated]]</small> | ! <small>[[w:Aspirated consonant|aspirated]]</small> | ||
| pʰ | | (pʰ) | ||
| tʰ | | tʰ | ||
| tʷʰ | | tʷʰ | ||
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*The exact value of a phoneme, denoted with the character "རྲ" is uncertain. It was likely a voiced affricate /d͡z/ or a fricative /zʷ/ during the classical period. In later dialects it became [r], [θ] or [w]. | *The exact value of a phoneme, denoted with the character "རྲ" is uncertain. It was likely a voiced affricate /d͡z/ or a fricative /zʷ/ during the classical period. In later dialects it became [pʰ], [r], [θ] or [w]. | ||
*/pʰ/ was a marginal phoneme in Classical Meskangela, it became more common in the Western dialects and disappeared in Southern Meskangela. | |||
*/ɥ/ was a separate phoneme in Old Meskangela and had remained distinct from /j/ at least by the early classical period. In dialects with metaphony it likely survived longer, resulting in the rounding of preceding vowels. | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||