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!<small>Plain</small>
!<small>Plain</small>
!<small>Labialized</small>
!<small>Labialized</small>
|-
|- align="center"
! Voiceless stops
! Voiceless stops
| align="center" | p
| p
| align="center" | t
| t
| align="center" | ʈ
| ʈ
| align="center" | k
| k
| align="center" | kʷ
| kʷ
| align="center" | q
| q
| align="center" | qʷ
|
|-
|- align="center"
! Voiced stop
! Voiced stop
| align="center" | b
| b
|-
|- align="center"
! Fricativs
! Fricativs
| align="center" | f
| f
| align="center" | s
| s
| align="center" | ʂ ~ ʃ
| ʂ ~ ʃ
|-
|- align="center"
! Nasals
! Nasals
| align="center" | m
| m
| align="center" | n
| n
|-
|-
! Approximants
! Approximants

Revision as of 04:14, 23 June 2009

Approx -5ka.


Labial Dental /
alveolar
Post-
alveolar
Velar Uvular
Plain Labialized Plain Labialized
Voiceless stops p t ʈ k q
Voiced stop b
Fricativs f s ʂ ~ ʃ
Nasals m n
Approximants l ɽ j w

[ʃ] occurs before front vowels, [ʂ] elsewhere.

CV(N), maybe other codas too?

/NN Nf Nl/ do not occur. /ʈ/ does not occur initially and has been argued to have rather been /d ~ ɖ/.

Vowels ?

Splits to Proto-West Altaic' and Proto-East Altaic' around -4.5ka.