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Plain stops are realized as voiced stops after a vowel or a nasal.
Plain stops are realized as voiced stops after a vowel or a nasal.


The placeless nasal /ɴ/ only occurs in the syllable coda. It is realized as a homorganic nasal before a stop or a nasal, and as lengthening and nasalization of the previous vowel otherwise. The sequence /ɴɭ/ is realized as /ɭɭ/.  
The placeless nasal /ɴ/ only occurs in the syllable coda. It is realized as a syllabic homorganic nasal before a stop or a nasal, and as lengthening and nasalization of the previous vowel otherwise. The sequence /ɴɭ/ is realized as /ɭɭ/.


===Vowels===
===Vowels===