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===Allophony=== | ===Allophony=== | ||
* [ | *Spirants and plosives with the same place of articulation merge and become geminated voiced plosives | ||
* | ** [βp] → [bː]<br/><br/> | ||
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* | * Spirants undergo fortition, becoming voiced plosives, when adjacent to plosives with a different place of articulation or nasals | ||
* [ | ** [ðn] → [dn] | ||
* [ | ** [tɣ] → [tg]<br/><br/> | ||
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* [ | * The alveolar voiced spirant undergoes fortition before the lateral fricative and... | ||
* [ | * The lateral fricative becomes a lateral release after an alveolar plosive | ||
* | **[ðl] → [dl] → [dˡ]<br/><br/> | ||
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* The alveolar and velar nasals merge with the palatal glide to form a palatal nasal | |||
**[nj] → [ɲ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The alveolar sibilant merges with the palatal glide into a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant | |||
** [sj] → [ʃ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The velar spirant and the palatal glide merge into a voiceless palatal-velar fricative | |||
**[hj] → [ɧ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The velar spirant and the labiovelar glide merge into a voiceless labiovelar approximant | |||
**[hw] → [ʍ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The labiovelar glide turns into labialization after a voiced velar plosive or spirant | |||
**[ɣw] → [ɣʷ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The palatal glide becomes a voiced palatal fricative word-initially | |||
**[∅j] → [ʝ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The labiovelar glide becomes a labiodental approximant word-initially | |||
**[∅w] → [ʋ] | |||
==Word Classes== | ==Word Classes== |
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