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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Common Minervan has a total of | Common Minervan 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 missing /p, ɡ/ and the absence of phonemic fricatives. The lack of phonemic fricatives is an areal feature of the languages of Ixhoble. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
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| || Labial ||Alveolar||Postalvelar||Palatal||Plain Velar||Labialised Velar||Glottal | | || Labial ||Central Alveolar||Lateral Alveolar||Postalvelar||Palatal||Plain Velar||Labialised Velar||Glottal | ||
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| Voiceless Stop || || /t/||/tʃ/||||/k/||/kʷ/|| | | Voiceless Stop || || /t/||/tɬ/||/tʃ/||||/k/||/kʷ/|| | ||
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| Voiced Stop|| /b/ || /d/||/dʒ/|||||||| | | Voiced Stop|| /b/ || /d/||||/dʒ/|||||||| | ||
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| Nasal || /m/ || /n/|||||||||| | | Nasal || /m/ || /n/|||||||||||| | ||
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|Liquid||||/l/|||||||||| | |Liquid||||||/l/|||||||||| | ||
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|Semivowel||||||||/j/||||/w/|| | |Semivowel||||||||||/j/||||/w/|| | ||
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|Transition||||||||||||||/h/ | |Transition||||||||||||||||/h/ | ||
|} | |} | ||