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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 the initial velar nasal. The consonants are displayed in the table below:
Magellanican has a total of 14 consonants which according to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a small inventory. The most striking features of the inventory, according to WALS, are the presence of a lateral obstruent. The consonants are displayed in the table below:


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
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|  ||Labial||Central Coronal||Lateral Coronal||Dorsal||Glottal
|  ||Labial||Alveolar||Palato-Alveolar||Dorsal||Glottal
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|Plosive||/p/||/t/||||/k/||/ʔ/
|Stop||/p/||/t/||/tʃ||/k/||
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|Fricative||/ʍ/||/ʃ/||/ɬ/||/ç/||
|Fricative||/ʍ/||/ɬ/||/ʃ/||/ç/||
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|Nasal||/m/||/n/||||/ŋ/||
|Nasal||/m/||/n/||||||
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|Liquid||||/ɹ/||/l/||||
|Liquid||||/l/||/ɹ/||||
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|-
|Approximant||/w/||||||/j/||/h/
|Semivowel||/w/||||||/j/||
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|||||||||/h/
|}
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