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| '''Plain Fricatives''' || || s || ṣ || ç || x || || h  
| '''Plain Fricatives''' || || s || ṣ || ç || x || || h  
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| '''Voiced Fricative''' || || || || || ||  || ḥ
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| '''Lateral Affricate''' || || tlh || || || || ||
| '''Lateral Affricate''' || || tlh || || || || ||
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| '''Voiced Fricative''' || || || || || ||  || ḥ
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| '''Lateral Fricative''' || || lh || || || || ||
| '''Lateral Fricative''' || || lh || || || || ||
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| '''Lateralized Click''' || || lq || || || || ||
| '''Lateralized Click''' || || lq || || || || ||
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| '''Rhotics''' || || r || ṛ || || || ||
| '''Rhotic Approximants''' || || r || ṛ || || || ||
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| '''Liquids''' || w || || || y || || ħ ||
| '''Liquids''' || w || || || y || ħ || ||
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| '''Lateral''' || || l || || || || ||
| '''Lateral''' || || l || || || || ||
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'''Note:''' The implosive stops are voiced glottalic implosives, except ''qh'', which is voiceless.
'''Note:''' The implosive stops are voiced glottalic implosives, except ''qh'', which is voiceless.
'''Note:''' Affricates and fricatives are unmarked for voicing, but the "target" pronunciation is voiceless.
 
'''Note:''' Affricates and fricatives are unmarked for voicing (except ''h'' / ''ḥ''), but the "target" pronunciation is voiceless.


==Vowels==
==Vowels==


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! Written !! IPA
! Written !! IPA
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The most common place that this marking is found is in ''heṃ'' and ''naheṃ'' the positive and negavite copulas.
The most common place that this marking is found is in ''heṃ'' and ''naheṃ'' the positive and negavite copulas.
=Grammar=
==Copulas==
There are in fact many prefixed versions of ''heṃ'' with many different desiderative, optative, dubitative, meanings.
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! Form !! General meaning
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| ''heṃ'' || Yes / is
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| ''naheṃ'' || No / isn't
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| ''jiheṃ'' || Doubt
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| ''küheṃ'' || Want
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| ''ḥeheṃ'' || "Yesno?"
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=Vocabulary=
==Noun Prefixes==
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! Prefix !! Meaning
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| ç || danger
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| lu || aquatic life
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| q || language
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| al || country
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| biṃ || female
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[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:Conlangs]]