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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Gammidɡe has a total of | Gammidɡe has a total of 41 consonants which accordinɡ to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Structures is a larɡe inventory. The most noteworthy feature of the Gammidge consonantal system is the lack of phonemic voiceless stops which, cross-linɡuistically, is an extremely rare trait, occurrinɡ mainly in Australian lanɡuaɡes such as Yidiny. NB: /ʔ/ patterns as a voiced plosive. In the consonant tables below and elsewhere the voiceless velar lateral affricate /kʟ̝̊/ is, for the sake of convenience, notated as /kɬ/. | ||
Consonant tables: | Consonant tables: | ||
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{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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| ||Plain Bilabial ||Palatalised | | ||Plain Bilabial ||Palatalised Bilabial || Dental || Plain Alveolar || Palatalised Alveolar||Labialised Alveolar | ||
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| Plosive || /b/|| /bʲ | | Plosive || /b/|| /bʲ/||||/d/ ||/dʲ/|| /dʷ/ | ||
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| Affricate | | Affricate || |||| || /tɬ/ || /tsʲ/|| /tsʷ/ | ||
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| Fricative | | Fricative|| ||||/θ/ || /ɬ/ || /sʲ/ ||/sʷ/ | ||
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| Nasal || /m/ ||/mʲ | | Nasal || /m/ ||/mʲ/|| ||/n/ || /nʲ/ || /nʷ/ | ||
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| Liquid | | Liquid || |||||| /ɮ/ || /lʲ/ || /lʷ/ | ||
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| Approximant || | | Approximant || || || || || || | ||
|} | |} | ||