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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Magellanican has a total of | Magellanican has a total of 13 consonants which according to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Stucture is a small inventory. The most striking feature of the inventory, according to WALS, are the presence of a lateral obstruent and the initial velar nasal. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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| ||Labial||Coronal||Dorsal||Glottal | | ||Labial||Central Coronal||Lateral Coronal||Dorsal||Glottal | ||
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|Plosive||/p/||/t/||/k/||/ʔ/ | |Plosive||/p/||/t/||||/k/||/ʔ/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Fricative||||/ɬ/|||| | |Fricative||||/ʃ/||/ɬ/|||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Nasal||/m/||/n/||/ŋ/|| | |Nasal||/m/||/n/||||/ŋ/|| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Liquid||||/l/|||| | |Liquid||||||/l/|||| | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Approximant||/w/||/ | |Approximant||/w/||/ɹ/||||/j/|| | ||
|} | |} | ||