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**Bilabial fricatives are realized as labiodental. | **Bilabial fricatives are realized as labiodental. | ||
**Alveolar consonants are realized as dental or vice versa. | **Alveolar consonants are realized as dental or vice versa. | ||
**Prevelar stops and fricatives (or only aspirated ones) are realized as postalveolar affricates and fricatives. | **Prevelar stops and fricatives (or only aspirated ones) are realized as postalveolar affricates and fricatives. | ||
**Prevelar and postvelar consonants are realized as palatal and velar, postalveolar (as above) and velar, or velar and uvular. | |||
***In fewer of these regions /ŋ/ assimilates to following postalveolar consonants as [n̠], merging with /n/. | ***In fewer of these regions /ŋ/ assimilates to following postalveolar consonants as [n̠], merging with /n/. | ||
**[j] and [ɉ] are merged. | **[j] and [ɉ] are merged. | ||