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**aspirated consonants and non-nasal consonants. | **aspirated consonants and non-nasal consonants. | ||
**C₁CC₁, #CC₁, and C₁C# clusters with the C₁ being less sonorous than C (unless is syllabic). | **C₁CC₁, #CC₁, and C₁C# clusters with the C₁ being less sonorous than C (unless is syllabic). | ||
***Roots with only epenthetic vowels can only have high lexical tone. | |||
*In some regions, | *In some regions, | ||
**Unstressed /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ are realized as [e] and [o] (with /a/ still having [ɛ] and [ɔ] realizations). | **Unstressed /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ are realized as [e] and [o] (with /a/ still having [ɛ] and [ɔ] realizations). | ||
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*Some regions also have a separate grammatical low falling tone and realize the falling tone as high falling, see [[Knrawi#Nouns and pronouns|Nouns and pronouns]]. | *Some regions also have a separate grammatical low falling tone and realize the falling tone as high falling, see [[Knrawi#Nouns and pronouns|Nouns and pronouns]]. | ||
*Roots with only epenthetic vowels can only have high lexical tone. | |||
Only a word's stressed syllable bears tone; other syllables' pitch depends on intonation. | Only a word's stressed syllable bears tone; other syllables' pitch depends on intonation. | ||