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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Magellanican has a total of 16 consonants which according to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a moderately small inventory. The most striking features of the inventory, according to WALS, are the presence of a lateral obstruent and an initial velar nasal as well as the absence of | Magellanican has a total of 16 consonants which according to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a moderately small inventory. The most striking features of the inventory, according to WALS, are the presence of a lateral obstruent and an initial velar nasal as well as the absence of phonemic fricatives. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
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| ||Plain Alveolar||Palatalised Alveolar||Labialised Alveolar||Plain Velar||Palatalised Velar||Labialised Velar | | ||Bilabial||Plain Alveolar||Palatalised Alveolar||Labialised Alveolar||Plain Velar||Palatalised Velar||Labialised Velar | ||
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| Stop||/t/||/tʲ/||/tʷ/||/k/||/kʲ/||/kʷ/ | | Stop||||/t/||/tʲ/||/tʷ/||/k/||/kʲ/||/kʷ/ | ||
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|Continuant||/l/||/lʲ/||/lʷ/||/h/†||/j/||/w/ | |Continuant||||/l/||/lʲ/||/lʷ/||/h/†||/j/||/w/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Affricate||/tɬ/||||||/k{{IPA|Ɬ}}/|||| | |Affricate||||/tɬ/||||||/k{{IPA|Ɬ}}/|||| | ||
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|Nasal||/n/||||||/ŋ/|||| | |Nasal||/m/||/n/||||||/ŋ/|||| | ||
|} | |} | ||