It is produced the same way as [t] except that
there is a puff of breath accompanying the poison.
The vocal folds are kept apart with no openings
and closings to produce voice, and the velic raised
to close the nasal passage. |
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It occurs medially, and in phonetic free variation with
[ h],
its alveolar counterpart.
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[h]
is the aspirated, breathed, tip-alveolar stop.
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It is produced the same was at []
except that there is a puff of breath accompanying the plosion.
The vocal folds are kept apart in a state of voicelessness
and the velic raised to close the nasal passage.
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It ocurs initially and medially.
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Initial
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 h ņ |
‘seed of the tree
dz tha
sibu’ |
| hņht |
‘be neurotic ; be
skewed in the head’ |
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Medial
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| kņhŏ |
‘quickly’ |
| mąh
|
‘be light [not heavy]’ |
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[kh] is the aspirated, breathed, velar stop. |
It is produced in the same fashion as [k] its unaspirated
congener except that there is a puff of breath accompanying
the plosion. The vocal folds are kept apart in a state of
voicelessness and the velic raised to close off the nasal
passage. |
It occurs initially and medially
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Initial
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| khēnķ |
‘unproductive
female of nonbovine quadrupeds’ |
| tprī
khņlņ |
‘kind
of plant, wild and nonedible with toothed, pungent-smelling
leaves which are used for ritualistic ceremonial
functions by pagan Maos’ |
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Medial
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c khŭ |
‘clump
of trees and bushes, a part of the forest which
is earmarked for individuals in a village’ |
| cōkhŏ |
‘kind
of tree, strikingly tall and upright with small
branches’ |
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[pf] is the breathed, bilabial affricate.
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It is produced by blocking the airstream from
the lungs at the lips and then slowly releasing it to produce
friction rather than plosion. More technically, it is a
voiceless bilabial plosive released as a homorganic fricative.
The vocal cords are held apart so there is no voice and
the velic raised to close the nasal passage.
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It occurs initially and medially, and only before the vowels
[i], [o] and [u].
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| pfōkī |
‘hill’ |
ōpf |
‘mother’s
sister’ |
| pfŏté |
‘mound’ |
ōpfŏ |
‘father’ |
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[pfh] is the breathed, aspirated, bilabial affricate.
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| It is produced in the same manner as [pf]
its unaspirated congener except that there is a puff of
breath accompanying the plosion. The vocal words are kept
in a state of voicelessness and the velic raised to close
off the nasal passage. It occurs initially and medially
in a few words. It is a marginal sound. |
[bv] is the voiced, bilabial affricate.
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