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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Magellanican has a total of | Magellanican has a total of 16 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 presence of a lateral obstruent and the initial velar nasal. The consonants are displayed in the table below: | ||
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| ||Labial||Central Coronal||Lateral Coronal||Dorsal||Glottal | | ||Labial||Central Coronal||Lateral Coronal||Dorsal||Glottal | ||
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|Plosive||/p/||/t/||||/k/||/ʔ | |Plosive||/p/||/t/||||/k/||/ʔ/ | ||
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|Fricative||/ʍ/||/ʃ/||/ɬ/||/ç/|| | |Fricative||/ʍ/||/ʃ/||/ɬ/||/ç/|| | ||
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|Liquid||||||/l/|||| | |Liquid||||||/l/|||| | ||
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|Approximant||/w/||/ɹ/||||/j/|| | |Approximant||/w/||/ɹ/||||/j/||/h/ | ||
|} | |} | ||