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==== Initial Sibilants ==== | ==== Initial Sibilants ==== | ||
Voicing does not contrast amongst sibilant consonants in Tevrés. Whilst there are usually all voiceless, some speakers pronounce them voiced. In dialects that have voiced initial sibilants and pronounce /z̻/ as [ð], this phoneme is often completely conflated with /d/, appearing as [d] word initially; e.g. '' | Voicing does not contrast amongst sibilant consonants in Tevrés. Whilst there are usually all voiceless, some speakers pronounce them voiced. In dialects that have voiced initial sibilants and pronounce /z̻/ as [ð], this phoneme is often completely conflated with /d/, appearing as [d] word initially; e.g. ''della'' for ''çella'' ('cat'). | ||
==Nouns== | ==Nouns== | ||