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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Hesperian has a total of | Hesperian has a total of 14 consonants which accordinɡ to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a small inventory. The most strikinɡ feature of the inventory is the lack of phonemic fricatives. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|- | |- | ||
| || Labial || Central | | || Labial || Central Alveolar||Postalveolar||Dorsal || Glottal | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Voiceless Stop |||| /t/|| | | Voiceless Stop |||| /t/|||| /k/ || | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Voiced Stop||/b/||/d/|| | |Voiced Stop||/b/||/d/|||||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |Voiceless Affricate||||/ts/||/tʃ/|||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |Voiced Affricate||||/dz/||/dʒ/|||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Nasal || /m/ || /n/ |||| || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Liquid || || ||/{{IPA|ᶢʟ}}/|| | ||
|- | |||
|Semivowel|| /w/||||||/j/|| | |||
|- | |||
| Approximant || || |||| || /h/ | |||
|} | |} | ||