Talk:Hipatal
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Try to make consonant pairs, even if some of the consonants pair oddly. These could be used to generate new phonemic tones, making this a four-tone language instead of a two-tone one. Although this is most useful if the language retains six vowels, which it likely will not.
consonant pairs: m m̄ n n̄ ŋ ŋ̄ b p̄ k kʷ p t h l y (assumes there is no /w/) consonant pairs: m m̄ n n̄ ŋ ŋ̄ p p̄ t k kʷ h b w l y consonant pairs: m m̄ n n̄ ŋ ŋ̄ h Ø p p̄ t k b w l y (assumes kʷ>k)
Only /p t h/ is problematic. One alternative is /p~h/ and /t~l/.