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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Hesperian has a total of 14 consonants which accordinɡ to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a small inventory. The most strikinɡ features of the inventory are the | Hesperian has a total of 14 consonants which accordinɡ to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a small inventory. The most strikinɡ features of the inventory are the absence of /p, ɡ/ amonɡ the plosives. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|- | |- | ||
| || Labial || Central Alveolar|| | | || Labial || Central Alveolar||Lateral Alveolar||Velar||Palatovelar||Labiovelar|| Glottal | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Voiceless Plosive |||| /t/|||| /k/ || | | Voiceless Plosive |||| /t/|||| /k/ || /kʲ/||/kʷ/|| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Voiced Plosive||/b/||/d/|||||| | |Voiced Plosive||/b/||/d/|||||||||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Voiceless | |Voiceless Fricative||||/θ̠/||/ɬ/||/x/||/xʲ/||/xʷ/|| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Voiced | |Voiced Fricative||/v/||/ð̠/|||||||||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Nasal || /m/ || /n/ |||| || | | Nasal || /m/ || /n/ |||| |||||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Liquid || || || || | | Liquid || || ||/l/ |||| |||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Semivowel|| | |Semivowel|| ||||||||/j/||/w/|| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Approximant || || |||| || /h/ | | Approximant || || |||| || ||||/h/ | ||
|} | |} | ||