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| [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]] | [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]]

! [[w:Approximant consonant|Approximant]] ...ts (other than *r which was most likely a trill) were true approximants or voiced fricatives is uncertain.

! colspan="2" | Approximant ...zations : they are voiceless in word-initial and word-final positions, and voiced otherwise.

||[[voiced bilabial plosive|b]] ||[[voiced alveolar plosive|d]]

...spirational donors; including the distinction of ''š ž'', ''s z'', and the voiced stops. ! style="width: 88px; " |Labio-Velar

! scope="col" style="width: 73px; text-align: center; "|Labio-velar ! style="text-align: center; "|Approximant

...comprises of nineteen phonemes. The only phonemes that occur in voiceless-voiced pairs are plosives. ! style="text-align: center; "|Approximant

! '''Approximant''' ...f any sort, all voiced approximants can be 'correctly' pronounced as their voiced fricatives equivalents.

!colspan="2"|Approximant !colspan="2"|Approximant

'''Voiced''': b d g g^w l r r m n z j w '''Digraphs''':Voiced aspirates: b^h d^h g^h g^wh voicele

! style="text-align: center; "|Approximant ...e of /d/— after a lateral consonant; in such contexts they are realized as voiced stops.

* Development of aspirated and breathy-voiced allophones of stops in stressed syllables. ...me loanwords and compounds—causing /u/, /ə/, and the aspirated and breathy-voiced stops to all become phonemic.

|can be either voiced or voiceless ! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Labio-Velar

|voiced ! scope="col" style="width: 66px; text-align: center; "|Labio-Velar

! Approximant ...ones of /f/, /θ/, and /s/ when occurring post-vocalically or preceded by a voiced consonant or sonorant An exception is made if the grapheme is doubled, in w

!colspan="2"|Approximant ...imilation : if one of the consonants is voiced and the other unvoiced, the voiced one gets devoiced, unless it is a nasal (although some level of devoicing m

! style="" |Approximant */ð/ is always pronounced as voiced dental frictative [ð]

| Approximant || || || || || || ɻ || j || || || ɥ || w || || ...and also through voiceless stops. However, it is blocked by fricatives and voiced stops e.g. it spreads in both /ˈqɨ̰ɫɨ/ [ˈqɤ̰ːɫɤ̰] - "giant" and

...ximant /w/, as in ''-ūwe'' and ''-ūwi'' respectively, in contrast with the voiced palatal consonant /j/ found in the rest of the Upper Minhast dialects.

...pefully show in the slightly more fluid nature of the language. There is a voiced/unvoiced contrast used for gender which, combined with the mutation of Fén ! style="" |Approximant