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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Magellanican has a total of | Magellanican has a total of 15 consonants which according to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a moderately small inventory. The most striking feature of the inventory, according to WALS, are the presence of a lateral obstruent and the initial velar nasal. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
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| ||Labial||Central Coronal||Lateral Coronal||Dorsal||Glottal | | ||Labial||Central Coronal||Lateral Coronal||Dorsal||Glottal | ||
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| | |Stop||/p/||/t/||||/k/|| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Voiced Stop||/b/||/d/||||/ɡ/|| | |Voiced Stop||/b/||/d/||||/ɡ/|| | ||
|Continuant||/w/||/ɹ̠/||||/j/|| | |||
|Continuant||/w/||/ɹ̠/||||/j/|| | |-h/ | ||
|- | |Fricative||/ʍ/||/ʃ/||/ɬ/||/ç/||/h/ | ||
|Fricative||/ʍ/||/ʃ/||/ɬ/||/ç/|| | |||
|- | |- | ||
|Nasal||/m/||/n/||||/ŋ/|| | |Nasal||/m/||/n/||||/ŋ/|| | ||
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1) /ʔ/ is a marginal phoneme at best, only occuring between vowels in hiatus. | 1) /ʔ/ is a marginal phoneme at best, only occuring between vowels in hiatus. | ||
2) /ʍ/ is articulated with slight velar friction although not | 2) /ʍ/ is articulated with slight velar friction although not sufficiently enough as to be notated as /xʷ/. | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||