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| ===Consonants=== | | ===Consonants=== |
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| Hyperborean has a total of 25 consonants which according to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is an average inventory. The most striking feature of the inventory, according to WALS, is the presence of a lateral obstruent and non-sibilant coronal fricatives (th-sounds). Also unusual are the presence of voiceless nasals. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | | Hyperborean has a total of 11 consonants which according to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a small inventory. The most striking feature of the inventory, according to WALS, is the lack of phonemic fricatives. The consonants are displayed in the table below: |
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| {| class="wikitable" | | {| class="wikitable" |
| |-oo | | |-oo |
| | || Labial ||Alveolar||Palato-Alveolar||Palatal||Plain Velar||Labialised Velar||Glottal | | | || Bilabial ||Central Alveolar||Lateral Alveolar||Plain Velar||Palatalised Velar||Labialised Velar |
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| | Voiceless Stop ||/p/ || /t/|| ||||/k/|||| | | | Nasal ||/m/ || /n/|| /l/†|||||| |
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| | Voiced Stop|| /b/ || /d/||||||/ɡ/|||| | | | Stop|| || /t/||||/k/||/kʲ/||/kʷ/ |
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| |Voiceless Fricative||/f/||/θ̠/||||||/x/|||| | | |Continuant||||/ɹ/||||/h/‡||/j/||w/ |
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| |Voiced Fricative||/v/||/ð̠/||||||/ɣ/||||
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| | Voiced Nasal || /m/ ||/n/|| ||||||||
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| |Voiceless Nasal||/m̥/||/n̥/||||||||||
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| |Voiced Liquid||||/l/||/ɹ̠/||||||||
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| |Voiceless Liquid||||/ɬ/†||/ʃ/†||||||||
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| |Voiced Semivowel||||||||/j/||||/w/|||
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| |Voiceless Semivowel||||||||/ç/‡||||/xʷ/‡||
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| †While not phonetically liquids, /ɬ, ʃ/ pattern phonologically with them | | †While not phonetically a nasal, /l/ pattern phonologically with them |
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| ‡While not phonetically semivowels, /ç, xʷ/ pattern phonologically with them | | ‡While not phonetically a plain velar /h/ pattern phonologically with /k/ |
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| ===Vowels=== | | ===Vowels=== |