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*The lateral approximate /l/ has two allophones in Classical Aeranir; [l] before close front vowels, /j/, and when geminated, and [ɫ] elsewhere. | *The lateral approximate /l/ has two allophones in Classical Aeranir; [l] before close front vowels, /j/, and when geminated, and [ɫ] elsewhere. | ||
*The fricative /s/ is often pronounced further back in the mouth, closer to [s̠]. | *The fricative /s/ is often pronounced further back in the mouth, closer to [s̠]. | ||
* The phoneme /h/ has two distinct allophones following the nasal /n/. When this cluster occurs natively within a word, /h/ is voiced and velarised to [ɣ]. Nasal /n/ is likewise velarised to [ŋ]. Dialectically, the cluster /ŋɣ/ may be fortified to [ŋg] or [gː], or lenited to [ŋː]. Before front vowels and /j/, these may appear as [ɲʝ], [ŋ˖g˖], [g˖ː], or [ŋ˖ː]. When the cluster /nh/ occurs where /h/ was once word initial, as result of a prefix, the nasal is deleted and the preceding vowel nasalised and lengthened. | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||