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* All plosives are realized as [ʔ] when immediately followed by another plosive or a nasal of the same place of articulation.  
* All plosives are realized as [ʔ] when immediately followed by another plosive or a nasal of the same place of articulation.  
* /ɸ/ appears only in loanwords, and may be instead pronounced as [hʷ]
* /ɸ/ appears only in loanwords, and may be instead pronounced as [hʷ]
* /s/, /z/, and /ʑ/ may be realized as their associated affricates when not intervocalic, but this is not obligatory.  
* /s/, /z/, and /ʑ/ may be realized as their associated affricates when not preceded by a vowel, but this is not obligatory.  
* /hʷ/ may be realized as [ʍ] and /v/ as [β] intervocalically, but this is not obligatory.  
* /hʷ/ may be realized as [ʍ] and /v/ as [β] intervocalically, but this is not obligatory.  
* /x/ is mostly realized as /h/ when preceding a non-front vowel.
* /x/ is mostly realized as /h/ when preceding a non-front vowel.

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