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**In some regions and in standard (but not Royal) Knrawi all sonorants are syllabified before consonants or word boundaries except before syllabic vowels/consonants. | **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. | ||
**/n/ becomes what is notated here as [mʷ], but is merged into [m] in most regions and in standard Knrawi. | |||
*In most regions /k̟ˣ/ and /x̟ˣ/ are realized as [t͡ʃˣ] and [ʃˣ]. | *In most regions /k̟ˣ/ and /x̟ˣ/ are realized as [t͡ʃˣ] and [ʃˣ]. | ||
*/ŋ/ assimilates to following velar consonants, and /n/ assimilates to following dental and postalveolar consonants. | */ŋ/ assimilates to following velar consonants, and /n/ assimilates to following dental and postalveolar consonants. | ||
*/ɪ/, /ʊ/, and /a/ are realized as [j], [w], and [ʔ̞] postvocalically. | */ɪ/, /ʊ/, and /a/ are realized as [j], [w], and [ʔ̞] postvocalically. | ||