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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Common Mavortian has a total of | Common Mavortian has a total of 13 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 missing /p, ɡ/ and the absence of phonemic fricatives. The lack of phonemic fricatives is an areal feature of the languages of the Summer Lands. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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| || Labial ||Central Alveolar||Lateral Alveolar||Palato-Alveolar|| | | || Labial ||Central Alveolar||Lateral Alveolar||Palato-Alveolar||Dorsal||Glottal | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Voiceless Stop || || /t/||||/tʃ/ | | Voiceless Stop || || /t/||||/tʃ/||/k/|| | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Voiced Stop || /b/ || /d/||||/dʒ/ | | Voiced Stop || /b/ || /d/||||/dʒ/|||| | ||
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| Nasal || /m/ || /n/ | | Nasal || /m/ || /n/ |||||||| | ||
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|Approximant||/w/||/ɹ/||/l/||||/j/ | |Approximant||/w/||/ɹ/||/l/||||/j/||/h/ | ||
|} | |} | ||