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Affricates

	Initially	Medially	Finally
Voiceless	+	+	_
Voiced	+	+	_
Aspirated	+	+	_
Nasals	+	+	+
Laterals	+	+	+
Trills	+	+	+

The following chart presents the distributional characteristic features of all the consonant phonemes in Purki language.

Phonemes	Initial	Medial	Final
/p/	+	+	+
/p^h/	+	+	-
/b/	+	+	-
/t/	+	+	+
/t^h/	+	+	-
/d/	+	+	-
/t/	+	+	+
/t^h/	+	+	-
/d/	+	+	+(in one item)
/k/	+	+	+
/k^h/	+	+	-
/g/	+	+	-
/q/	+	+	+
/c/	+	+	-
/c^h/	+	+	-
/č/	+	+	-
/čh/	+	+	-
//	+	+	-
/f/	+	+	+
/s/	+	+	+
/z/	+	+	-
//	+	+	+
/˛/	+	+	-
//	+	+	+
Phonomes	Initial	Medial	Final
//	+	+	-
/h/	+	+	-
/m/	+	+	+
/n/	+	+	+
/ń/	+	+	-
//	+	+	+
/1/	+	+	+
/r/	+	+	+
/w/	+	+	+
/y/	+	+	-

1.4.4.

Examples

/p/	piu ‘fly’	sprin ‘cloud’	grip ‘shade’
/p^h/	p^horaq ‘crow’	baqphe ‘flour’	__
/b/	baho ‘cave'	sabak ‘lesson’	__
/t/	tu ‘shell’	strin ‘worm’	ot ‘light’
/t^h/	t^hu ‘spit’	yult^heq ‘threshing ‘floor’	__
/d/	a ‘arrow’	qorat ‘nature’	__
/t/	tutu ‘throat’	ba:lti ‘bucket’	pa:pat ‘papad’
/t^h/	t^hup ‘darkness’	othul ‘testicle’	__
/d/	dulu ‘pigtail’	toldo ‘clinking bell’	po:stka:rd ‘postcard’
/k/	kupas ‘cotton’	dika ‘here’	tuk ‘sick’
/k^h/	k^hi ‘dog’	pank^ha ‘fan’	__

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