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*All sonorants can be syllabic. | *All sonorants can be syllabic. | ||
**Syllabic [β̞] and [ɉ] are fricated in most regions and in standard and Royal Knrawi. | **Syllabic [β̞] and [ɉ] are fricated in most regions and in standard and Royal Knrawi. | ||
**In some regions and in standard Knrawi all sonorants are syllabified before consonants except before syllabic vowels. | **In some regions and in standard (but not Royal) Knrawi all sonorants are syllabified before consonants or word boundaries except before syllabic vowels/consonants. | ||
*Alveolar consonants become bilabial adjacent to /m/, /ʊ/, and labialized consonants. | *Alveolar consonants become bilabial adjacent to /m/, /ʊ/, and labialized consonants. | ||
*In most regions /k̟ˣ/ and /x̟ˣ/ are realized as [t͡ʃˣ] and [ʃˣ]. | *In most regions /k̟ˣ/ and /x̟ˣ/ are realized as [t͡ʃˣ] and [ʃˣ]. | ||