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1.5.9.10. 
 		 / ? / has one allophone [ ? ]
It is called the glottal stop. It occurs in the following environments.
 
i) medially between vowels
[ ro:?o ]  ‘soot’
[ re?ila ]  ‘yesterday’
ii) medially in clusters
[ ir?a ]  ‘mud’
[ mar?a ] ‘wild red cat’

1.5.9.11.
 

  / c / is the voiceless alveolar affricate. It has the allophones [ ] which is a voiceless palatal affricate and [ c ] which is an alveolar affricate.
[c] occurs
i) initially before vowels
[ ci:ni]  ‘sugar’
ii) medially between vowels
[ ba: ca ]  ‘blame’

 		    
iii) medially in gemination
[ kaccakuppi ] ‘scorpion’
[ ć ] occurs
iv) medially after nasal
[ kui ] ‘lock’
1.5.9.12. 


 / j / is the voiced alveolar affricate. It has the allophones [ ĵ ] which is a voiced palatal affricate and [ j ] which is an alveolar affricate.
 
     
[ j ] occurs    
     
i) initially before vowels    
[jatu ]   ‘animal’
     
     
ii) medially between vowels    
[ gajomi ]   ‘yard’
     
     
iii) medially in gemination    
[ kajja ]    ‘big’
     
     
iv) medially in clusters    
[ surjupu:yu ]   ‘sunflower’
     
     
[ ĵ ] occurs    
     
v) medially after nasal    
     
[ mańĵuti ]    ‘wrinkle’
   

1.5.9.13.
  		/ m / has the allophone [ m ].
It is a voiced bilabial nasal. It occurs
 
i) initially before vowels
[ mu´geli ]  ‘nose’
ii) initially in clusters
[ mra: nu ] ‘tree, wood’
iii) medially between vowels
[ ga:ma }  ‘sweat’
iv) medially in gemination
[ ·ommu ] ‘bone’
v) medially before homorganic stop
[ ambu ]  ‘arrow’
vi) medially in clusters
[ kamla ] ‘orange’
 

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