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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Magellanican has a total of | Magellanican has a total of 15 consonants which according to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a moderately small inventory. The most striking features of the inventory, according to WALS, are the existence of an initial velar nasal and the total lack of phomemic fricatives. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|-oo | |-oo | ||
| ||Bilabial|| | | ||Bilabial|| Plain Alveolar||Palatalised Alveolar||Labialised Alveolar||Plain Velar||Palatalised Velar||Labialised Velar | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Stop||||/t/||/ | | Stop||||/t/||/tʲ/||/tʷ/||/k/||/kʲ/||/kʷ/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Continuant||||/ | |Continuant||||/l/||/lʲ/||/lʷ/||/h/†||/j/||/w/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Nasal||/m/||/n/||||/ŋ/|||| | |Nasal||/m/||/n/||||||/ŋ/|||| | ||
|} | |} | ||