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 ! &nbsp; !! Labial !! Coronal !! Dorsal !! Gutteral
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-! Nasal || m || n || ni ||
+| Nasal || m || n || ni ||
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-! Plosive || p b || t d || k g || q
+| Plosive || p b || t d || k g || q
 |-
-! Fricative || f v || s z || x (g) || &nbsp;
+| Fricative || f v || s z || c (g) || x
 |-
-! Affricate || &nbsp; || ts || &nbsp; || &nbsp;
+| Affricate || &nbsp; || ts || &nbsp; || &nbsp;
 |-
-! Liquid || (v) || r || (j) || &nbsp;
+| Liquid || (v) || r || (j) || &nbsp;
+|-
+| Lateral || &nbsp; || l || &nbsp; || &nbsp;
 |}
+* Among the continuants, /n/, /r/, and /l/ are often syllabic. /m/ and /z/ may be syllabic in a handful of words and affixes.
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 | Low || &nbsp; || a || &nbsp;
 |}
+* Vowels often lack front-back contrast, and vowels tend to assimilate to consonants and not the other way around.
+The phonetics of Hwnic is not as clean as the tables of phonemes might suggest. /c/ has 4 allophones and /g/ has 3. Vowel combinations can have unexpected pronunciations. /o/ sometimes comes from syllabic /l/, and this /l/ is restored after a vowel sound as well as giving the vowel a rising tone, and so on.
 === Stress and prosody ===