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| <small>''uvular''</small> || || <center>[q]</center> || || || <center>q</center> || | | <small>''uvular''</small> || || <center>[q]</center> || || || <center>q</center> || | ||
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| colspan="2" | <small>''nasal''</small> || <center>[m]</center> || | | colspan="2" | <small>''nasal''</small> || <center>[m]</center> || || <center>[n]</center> || <center>m</center> || || <center>n</center> | ||
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| colspan="2" | <small>''liquid''</small> | | colspan="2" | <small>''liquid''</small> || <center>[r]</center> || || <center>[l]</center> || <center>r</center> || || <center>l</center> | ||
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| rowspan="7" | <small>''fricative''</small> || <small>''sibilant''</small> || || <center>[s]</center> || || || <center>s</center> || | | rowspan="7" | <small>''fricative''</small> || <small>''sibilant''</small> || || <center>[s]</center> || || || <center>s</center> || | ||
Revision as of 10:36, 17 April 2025
- Main article: Bīṙ
This page gives an extensive description of Bīṙ phonological features.
Consonants
The consonant system distinguishes 20 phonemes, traditionally arranged in the following scheme:
| plosive | voiced | ||||||
| uvular | |||||||
| nasal | |||||||
| liquid | |||||||
| fricative | sibilant | ||||||
| velar | |||||||
| glottal | |||||||
| palato-alveolar | |||||||
| palato-sibilant | |||||||
| palatal | |||||||
| labio-dental | |||||||
| affricate | |||||||
| approximant | |||||||
The group of the plosive consonants is essentially well developed and distinguishes two sub-groups: voiceless and voiced.
The groups of the nasal is slighty poorer, but anyway quite developed. The group of the liquid consonants is remarkably scarce, with the only phoneme [r].
The group of the fricative consonants is overall well developed and rich in points of articulation, but it displays no distinction between voiced and voiceless phonemes, except in the sub-group of the palato-alveolar consonants.
There are two affricate consonants and only one approximant phoneme, [j], which has a full consonantal value and it is never regarded as a semivowel.
