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[ŋ]
Velar nasal occurs only before the voiced velar stop.
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[n] Dental nasal occurs in all the other environments.
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/n sl/
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‘race’
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/m€ni/
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‘myna’
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/k an/
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‘cheese’
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/ngaro/
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‘a musical |
/kna i/ |
‘earthen |
/kn/
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‘ear’
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instrument’ |
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Does not occur in the word initial position and has two allophones.
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[ŋ] a retroflex nasal which occurs with the homorganic stops.
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a flapped retroflex nasal occurs in all the other environments.
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Fricatives
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/f/ Voiceless labiodental fricative occurs in all the positions.
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/fIkIr/
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‘worry’
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/safo/
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‘turban’
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/trf/
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‘towards’
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‘decision’ |
/mnafq/
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‘a back bite’
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/saf/
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‘clean’
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/s/ Voiceless alveolar fricative occurs in all the positions.
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/z/ Voiced alveolar fricative occurs in all the positions of the word.
This is mostly found in the loan words from Perso-Arabic.
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/zIyart/
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‘grave of the
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/bzar/
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‘market’
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/mez/
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‘table’
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‘ancestor
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/zmir/
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‘conscience’
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/gza/
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‘food,
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/tawiz/
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‘a charm, an
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diet’
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amulet,’
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/š/
Voiceless palatal fricative occurs in all the positions.
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/š ki/
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‘fashionable’
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/mšin/
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‘crusher’
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/xrgoš/
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‘hare’
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/šišo/
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‘mirror, looking
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/pšm/
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‘fur’
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/beòš/
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‘senseless’
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glass’
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/x/ Voiceless velar fricative occurs in all the positions.
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/xab/
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‘dream’
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/mx€ri/
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‘black bee’
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/nax/
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‘name of a fruit’
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/xwr/
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‘news’
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/jxm/
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‘wound’
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/sax/
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‘the period (for
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which the bullock
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has been put to
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plough)’ |
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/γ/
Voiced velar fricative occurs in all the positions.
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/γ€r/
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‘other’
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/r γn/
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‘polish’
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/saγ/
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‘vegetable’
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/γalb/
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‘mould’
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/bγ€r/
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‘without’
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/baγ/
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‘garden’
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/h/ Voiceless glottal fricative occurs only in the initial position.
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/hiro/
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‘diamond’
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/hIsso/
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‘part, share’
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/hIki/
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‘hiccup’
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/hũ/
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‘I’
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