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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Hesperian has a total of | Hesperian has a total of 16 consonants which accordinɡ to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a moderately small inventory. The most strikinɡ feature of the inventory is the absence of phonemic fricatives. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|- | |- | ||
| || | | || Labial || Alveolar||Postalveolar|| Velar||Glottal | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Voiceless Plosive |||| /t/ | | Voiceless Plosive |||| /t/||||/k/|| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Voiced Plosive||/b/||/d/ | |Voiced Plosive||/b/||/d/|||||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Voiceless Affricate||||||/tʃ/ | |Voiceless Affricate||||/ts/||/tʃ/|||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Voiced Affricate||||||/dʒ/ | |Voiced Affricate||||/dz/||/dʒ/||||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |Fricative||||/ɬ/||||||||/h/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |Nasal||/m/||/n/|||||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |Liquid||||/l/||/ɹ/|||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Semivowel|| /w/ || ||/j/ |||| | ||
|} | |} | ||