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! colspan="2" | Sonorants | ! colspan="2" | Sonorants | ||
| w || r | | w || r || y || || l || || || | ||
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! colspan="2" | Nasals | ! colspan="2" | Nasals | ||
| m || n | | m || n || || || || || || | ||
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Note the lack of standard IPA conventions. | |||
The laminal series represents what ends up as (in the case of /ᵈź/) /ð/ in Semitic, /d/ in Egyptian, /z/ in Berber and Cushitic, and /dʒ/ in Chadic. In contrast, the apical series represents what ends up as (in the case of /dz/) /z/ in Semitic, Egyptian, Berber and Cushitic and /dz/ in Chadic. | |||
The laminal and apical series of affricates act like stops in terms of distribution, and some daughter languages yield affricates from emphatics (Chadic is unreliable in that it yields dental affricates across the board, and merges /š/ with /ɬ/, implying that it simply merged non-laminal fricatives with affricates). | |||
The exact nature of emphatics is fairly unimportant - daughter languages either eliminated them (leaving traces of their presence sometimes in vowel quality) or use pharyngealisation or ejectives. The important point is that they involve disrupted airflow from behind where the consonants are being made in the mouth/vocal tract area. | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
===Phonotactics (refer to Grammar)=== | ===Phonotactics (refer to Grammar)=== | ||
The feminine marker -(a)ta may end up as -ta, or where case erosion takes place, -at or even -a. | |||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||