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| colspan="2" | <small>''liquid''</small> || <center>[r]</center> || <center>[ʀ]</center> || <center>[l]</center> || <center>r</center> || <center>ŕ</center> || <center>l</center>
| colspan="2" | <small>''liquid''</small> || <center>[r]</center> || <center>[ʀ]</center> || <center>[l]</center> || <center>r</center> || <center>ŕ</center> || <center>l</center>
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| rowspan="5" | <small>''fricative''</small> ||<small>''velar''</small> || || <center>[ɣ]</center> || || || <center>ɣ</center> ||  
| rowspan="7" | <small>''fricative''</small> ||<small>''sibilant''</small> || <center>[s]</center> || <center>[s]</center> || <center>[s]</center> || <center>s</center> || <center>s</center> || <center>s</center>
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| <small>''sibilant''</small> || || <center>[s]</center> || || || <center>s</center> ||  
| <small>''velar''</small> || || <center>[x]</center> || || || <center>x</center> ||  
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| <small>''alveolar''</small> || || <center>[ʃ]</center> || || || <center>š</center> ||  
| <small>''pharyngeal''</small> || || <center>[ħ]</center> || || || <center>ħ</center> ||  
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| <small>''glottal''</small> || <center>[ʔ]</center> || || <center>[h]</center> || <center>ʔ</center> || || <center>h</center>
| <small>''dental''</small> || || <center>[θ]</center> || || || <center>ť</center> ||  
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| <small>''approximant''</small> || <center>[j]</center> || || <center>[w]</center> || <center>j</center> ||  || <center>w</center>
| <small>''glottal''</small> || || <center>[h]</center> || || || <center>h</center> ||
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| <small>''palatal''</small> || || <center>[ç]</center> || || || <center>ç</center> ||
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| <small>''labio-dental''</small> || || <center>[f]</center> || || || <center>f</center> ||
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| colspan="2" | <small>''approximant''</small> || <center>[j]</center> || || <center>[w]</center> || <center>j</center> ||  || <center>w</center>
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| colspan="2" | <small>''affricate''</small> || || <center>[ʦ]</center> || || || <center>ts</center> ||  
| colspan="2" | <small>''affricate''</small> || || <center>[ʦ]</center> || || || <center>ts</center> ||  

Revision as of 01:48, 23 April 2025

Main article: Memniq

This page gives an extensive description of Memniq phonological features.

Consonants

The consonant system distinguishes 24 phonemes, traditionally arranged in the following scheme:

IPA
Transcription
plosive voiceless
[p]
[k]
[t]
p
k
t
uvular
[q]
q
glottal
[ʔ]
ʔ
nasal
[m]
[n]
m
n
liquid
[r]
[ʀ]
[l]
r
ŕ
l
fricative sibilant
[s]
[s]
[s]
s
s
s
velar
[x]
x
pharyngeal
[ħ]
ħ
dental
[θ]
ť
glottal
[h]
h
palatal
[ç]
ç
labio-dental
[f]
f
approximant
[j]
[w]
j
w
affricate
[ʦ]
ts

The group of the plosive consonants distinguishes three sub-groups: voiceless, voiced, and aspirated, even though the voiced sub-group includes only the phoneme [g].

The group of the fricative consonants is overall well developed, although less rich, like the group of the nasal and of the liquid consonants. The glottal consonant, [ʔ], while formally a plosive, is traditionally included in the fricative group. The phonemes [j] and [w] have a full consonantal value and they are never regarded as semivowels.