Khangaþyagon Consonants

Basic Inventory

Khangaþyagon's consonants are shown in the table below. Each series of consonants is shown on two rows, the first with the IPA symbol, the second with the romanisation. In each cell, voiceless consonants are on the left, voiced consonants on the right.

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops	p b		t d			k g
	p b		t d			k g
Fricatives	f v	θ ð	s z	ʃ ʒ		x	h
	f v	þ ð	s z	sh zh		kh	h
Nasals	m		n			ŋ
	m		n			ng
Approximants and a tap	w		ɾ		j
	w		r		y
Lateral			l
			l

Phonemic Geminates

[s],[z],[m],[n],[l] and [ɾ] can all be gemminated, with [ɾː] realised as [r]. In the romanisation, these are all represented by doubling the letter.

Syllabic l

[l̩] occurs as an allophone of [l] in the context ClC or Cl#, where C represents any consonants and # represents a word boundary.

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--PeteBleackley 07:11, 17 May 2006 (PDT)