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Speakers of northern Tevrés around the traditional homeland of the language, Çien-a-Tevrén, tend to realise all syllable final nasals as [ŋ], (e.g. ''Tevrén'' /tevˈɾen/: <small>Northern</small> {{IPA-all|tevˈɾẽŋ|}}, <small>Southern</small> {{IPA-all|tevˈɾẽn|}}; ''cantir'' /kanˈtiɾ/: <small>Northern</small> {{IPA-all|kãŋˈtiɾ|}}, <small>Southern</small> {{IPA-all|kãnˈtiɾ|}}). This trait is shared with the Hilero-Iscaric languages to the northwest of Çien-a-Tevrén, and may be an aerial feature. | Speakers of northern Tevrés around the traditional homeland of the language, Çien-a-Tevrén, tend to realise all syllable final nasals as [ŋ], (e.g. ''Tevrén'' /tevˈɾen/: <small>Northern</small> {{IPA-all|tevˈɾẽŋ|}}, <small>Southern</small> {{IPA-all|tevˈɾẽn|}}; ''cantir'' /kanˈtiɾ/: <small>Northern</small> {{IPA-all|kãŋˈtiɾ|}}, <small>Southern</small> {{IPA-all|kãnˈtiɾ|}}). This trait is shared with the Hilero-Iscaric languages to the northwest of Çien-a-Tevrén, and may be an aerial feature. | ||
==== Conflation of /l/ and /ɮ/ ==== | |||
Some speakers conflate /l/ and /ɮ/ into a single phoneme. The realisation of this phoneme varies, and different conditions provoking different allophones. In Velles this phoneme is realised as [l] word initially and before voiced obstruents, and [ɬ] word finally and before a voiceless obstruent whilst in Hodén it is [l] word initially, [ɮ] between vowels and before voiced obstruents, and [ɬ] word finally and before a voiceless obstruent, and in Os Selum it is [ɬ] initially, finally, and before a voiceless obstruent, and [l] elsewhere. | |||
==== 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. ''dilla'' for ''çilla'' ('cat'). | |||
==Nouns== | ==Nouns== | ||