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ōc	‘house’	ōj	‘globe; world’
ōci	‘wife’	ōji	‘size’
ōc	‘husband’s elder	j	‘be big’
	brother’

The voiceless palatal affricate and its alveolar congener [c] and [ts]

ōc	‘1.	speech	ōts	‘kind of plant 3-5 ft. in
	2.	case		height, belonging to the
	3.	stools’		grass family with grey black,
				red or blue, coloured grains’
ōc	‘1.	house	ts	‘be sober, sensible
	2.	weather’		[not drunk]’
ccū		‘be true’	tskě	‘nail’
ōc	‘1.stone,	2. elder	ōts	‘part of the nape
	brother’s	wife’		where the mane lies’

The voiceless alveolar affricate and its voiced congener [ts] and [dz]

ģts	‘knowledge ;	ģdz	‘testicle’
	scholarship’
ōts	‘kind of plant 3-5 ft.	ōdz	‘water’
	in height, belonging
	to the grass family
	with grey, black,
	red or blue-coloured
	grains’

The voiced alveolar affricate [dz] and its palatal congener [j]

ōdz	‘water’	j	‘be big’
mņdz	‘to chase’	mj	‘pumpkin
			[large type]

The voiceless alveolar fricative and its voiced congener : [s] and [z]

ōs	‘kind of millet’	ōz	‘bedstead’
kņs	‘earthquake’	kōz	‘darkness’
ōs	‘breath’	ģz	‘bud’
nņs	‘temple	mōz	‘to pass water;
	[body part]’		to urinate’

The voiceless palatal fricative and its voiced congener : [] and []

kā	‘place with tropical/			‘be good’
	warm weather’
ōé	‘hump’		ōā	‘mat made of
				bamboo/cane’
			ōě	‘rat’
kņŏ	‘1. wing	2fin’	bāō	‘1.palm	2.paw’

The voiceless retroflex fricative and the palatal fricative [x] and [s]

prişi	‘to slip’	i	‘to knit’
ōşé	‘gourd [generic]’	ě	‘draw water from the well’

The voiceless velar and glottal fricatives [x] and [h]

ōxģ	‘skin’	ōhģ
ōxņ	‘fowl’	ōhņ

The voiced bilabial nasal and its alveolar congener : m and n

ōmģ	‘fire’	ōnģ	‘1. clay	2. soil’
ōmņ	‘femalegenital’	tōnō	‘kind of necklace’
mąrě	‘rainbow’	nāşā	‘sash across the
			body’
ōm	‘man’	ōnņ	‘laughter’
mņhū	‘be dry’	nņhņ	‘calf of the leg’

The voiced alveolar nasal and its velar congener : [n] and [ŋ]

ōną	‘child’	ŋą	‘billion’
kōnō	‘suffering due to
	ill-health’	ōŋņ	‘orang-outang’
nōrō	twig; switch’	īŋōsą	‘a wingless thick bodied
			reptile with countless legs
			contracting into a ball-
			shaped mass when touched’

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