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 ===Consonants===
-Common Minervan 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 Xabde. The consonants are displayed in the table below:
+Northlandic has a total of 23 consonants which according to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is an average inventory. The most striking feature of the inventory, according to WALS, is the presence of non-sibilant coronal fricatives (ie: th-sounds). The consonants are displayed in the table below:
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 |-oo
-|  || Bilabial ||Central Alveolar||Lateral Alveolar||Palatal†||Plain Velar||Labialised Velar||Glottal
+|  || Labial ||Alveolar||Postalveolar||Palatal||Plain Velar||Labialised Velar||Glottal
 |-
-| Voiceless Stop || || /t/|| ||/tʃ/||/k/||/kʷ/||
+| Voiceless Stop ||/p/ || /t/|| ||||/k/||||
 |-
-| Voiced Stop|| /b/ || /d/||||/dʒ/||||||
+| Voiced Stop|| /b/ || /d/||||||/ɡ/||||
 |-
-| Nasal || /m/ ||/n/||/l/‡ ||||||||
+|Voiceless Fricative||/f/||/θ̠/||||||/x/||||
 |-
-|Approximant||||||||/j/||||/w/|||/h/
+|Voiced Fricative||/v/||/ð̠/||||||/ɣ/||||
+|-
+| Nasal || /m/ ||/n/|| ||||||||
+|-
+|Voiced Liquid||||/l/||/ɹ̠/||||||||
+|-
+|Voiceless Liquid||||/ɬ/||/ʃ/||||||||
+|-
+|Voiced Semivowel||||||||/j/||||/w/|||
+|-
+|Voiceless Semivowel||||||||/ç/||||/xʷ/||
+|-
+|Approximant||||||||||||||/h/
 |}
-† Palato-Alveolars and /j/in same column for convenience.
-‡ /l/ is not phonetically a nasal but patterns with them.
 ===Vowels===