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/ɱ/ is an allophone of /m/ before /f v/ (as in ''se'''m'''fogne'' "symphony, song") while /ŋ/ is an allophone of /n/ before /k g/ (as in ''ou'''n'''cle'' "uncle, bro (to an older person)").

Macambese only has one phonemic rhotic, /r/, but the realisation of this phoneme varies greatly depending on dialect and sometimes even at the idiolect level. In Northern dialects, /r/ is pronounced as uvular /ʁ/ in word-medial coda syllable positions, as in ''pardoun'' {{IPA|[ˈpaʁdõw̃]}}, and is pronounced as tap /ɾ/ everywhere else. However, in the Foidegrin dialect, word-medial coda /r/ is only uvular before sonorants, as in ''parlé'' {{IPA|[paʁˈlei̯]}} and is trill /r/ everywhere else. In Southern dialects it is traditionally trill /r/ everywhere, though with the more recent influence of English the /r/ has been gradually replaced by alveolar /ɹ/, which is also the most common realisation in all positions by L2 speakers of the language (called ''anglen'' or ''bushrons'').

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