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! rowspan=2 | Stop/<br>Affricate | ! rowspan=2 | Stop/<br>Affricate | ||
! voiceless | ! voiceless | ||
| [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]] || [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar affricate|tʃ]] || [[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]] || [[w:Glottal stop|ʔ]] | | [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]] || [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar affricate|tʃ]] || [[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]] || ([[w:Glottal stop|ʔ]]) | ||
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! voiced | ! voiced | ||
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| [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]] || [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]] || [[w:Voiced palatal nasal|ɲ]] || [[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]] || | | [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]] || [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]] || [[w:Voiced palatal nasal|ɲ]] || [[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]] || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! rowspan=2 | Fricative | ||
! voiceless | |||
| || [[w:Voiceless alveolar sibilant|s]] || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar sibilant|ʃ]] || || [[w:Voiceless glottal fricative|h]] | | || [[w:Voiceless alveolar sibilant|s]] || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar sibilant|ʃ]] || || [[w:Voiceless glottal fricative|h]] | ||
|- | |||
! voiced | |||
| || [[w:Voiced alveolar sibilant|z]] || || | |||
|- | |- | ||
! rowspan=2 | Approximant | ! rowspan=2 | Approximant | ||
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/ɲ/ is the only consonant that cannot appear in a coda position; typically, this is circumvented by adding /ɛ/ or /a/ postpositionally, so ''{{bm|grin}}'' becomes ''{{bm|grinyeh}}''. | /ɲ/ is the only consonant that cannot appear in a coda position; typically, this is circumvented by adding /ɛ/ or /a/ postpositionally, so ''{{bm|grin}}'' becomes ''{{bm|grinyeh}}''. | ||
====Nasal assimilation==== | |||
"'''Nasal assimilation'''" in Bemé refers to a [[w:Sandhi|sandhi]] process where the [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|alveolar nasal]] /n/ is shifted to a different nasal before certain [[w:Obstruent consonants|obstruents]]. This process varies among Bemé dialects; the differences between major dialects are shown in the following table. | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | |||
! rowspan=2 colspan=2 | !! colspan=14 | Obstruents | |||
|- | |||
! /p/ !! /b/ !! /t/ !! /d/ !! /tʃ/ !! /dʒ/ !! /k/ !! /g/ !! /s/ !! /z/ !! /ʃ/ !! /h/ | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan=3 | Nasal | |||
! Bemé | |||
| colspan=2 rowspan=3 | /m/ || colspan=4 rowspan=2 | /n/ || colspan=2 rowspan=3 | /ŋ/ || colspan=3 | /n/ || - | |||
|- | |||
! Bijun | |||
| colspan=2 rowspan=2 | /n/ || rowspan=2 | /ɲ/ || /m/ | |||
|- | |||
! Columbé | |||
| colspan=2 | /n/ || colspan=2 | /ɲ/ || - | |||
|} | |||
The placement of /n/ before /h/ only occurs in one word: ''{{bm|Anhara}}'', a girl's name of Sasubi origin ([[Sasubi]]: انخارا); the /n/ is pronounced as a bilabial <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> in standard Bemé and [[Bijun]] but not pronounced whatsoever in [[Columbé]], instead giving /ahaɾa/ or /aːhaɾa/(the first /a/ may be lengthened to compensate for a lack of a /n/). In the original [[Sasubi]], the name is pronounced [[Help:IPA|[ɐŋxɐˈra]]]. | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | {| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | ||