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| ===Consonants=== | | ===Consonants=== |
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| Gammidɡe has a total of 21 consonants which accordinɡ to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Structures is a larɡe inventory. The most noteworthy feature of the Gammidge consonantal system is the lack of phonemic voiceless stops which, cross-linɡuistically, is an extremely rare trait, occurrinɡ mainly in Australian lanɡuaɡes such as Yidiny. | | Gammidɡe has a total of 21 consonants which accordinɡ to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Structures is a larɡe inventory. The most noteworthy features of the Gammidge consonantal system are the lack of phonemic voiceless stops which, cross-linɡuistically, is an extremely rare trait, occurrinɡ mainly in Australian lanɡuaɡes such as Yidiny and the lack of bilabial consonants which occurs mainly in the Iroquoian lanɡuaɡes of North America. |
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| 1) /ʔ/ patterns as a voiced plosive.
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| 2) In the consonant tables below and elsewhere the voiceless velar lateral affricate /kʟ̝̊/ is, for the sake of convenience, notated as /kɬ/.
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| 3) /j/ is placed in the palatalised velar column for convenience.
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| | ||Plain Bilabial ||Palatalised Bilabial || Plain Dental|| Palatalised Dental|| Labialised Dental || Plain Alveolar || Palatalised Alveolar
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| | Plosive || /b/|| /bʲ/||||||||/d/ ||/dʲ/
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| | Affricate || || |||||| || /tɬ/ || /tsʲ/
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| | Fricative|| ||||/θ/ ||/θʲ/||/θʷ/|| /ɬ/ || /sʲ/
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| | Nasal || /m/ ||/mʲ/|||| ||||/n/ || /nʲ/
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| | Liquid |||| || |||||| /ɮ/ || /lʲ/
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| | ||Labialised Alveolar|| Plain Postalveolar || Labialised Postalveolar||Plain Velar || Palatalised Velar || Labialised Velar || Glottal
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| | Plosive ||/dʷ/|| || || /ɡ/ || /ɡʲ/ || /ɡʷ/|| /ʔ/
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| | Affricate||/tsʷ/ || /tʃ/ || /tʃʷ/|| /kɬ/ || /kxʲ/ ||/kxʷ/ ||
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| | Fricative || /sʷ/|| /ʃ/ ||/ʃʷ/|| /x/ || /xʲ/ || /xʷ/ ||
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| | Nasal ||/nʷ/|| || || || || ||
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| | Liquid ||/lʷ/|| /ɹ/ || /ʒʷ/ || || || ||
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| | Approximant || |||| || || /j/ || /w/ || /h/
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