User:Landroving Linguist/Awngi Consonants

Consonants

 * Palatal and velar together in Awngi form only one place of articulation, which is called palato-velar.
 * Post-stopped fricatives are assumed to be single segments in Awngi for phonotactic reasons . Other linguists (e.g. Richard Wiese for German have called such sounds suffricates.
 * is found word-initially in loanwords in free variation with Zero.
 * does not occur word-initially. It is pronounced as a flap when not geminate.
 * Between vowels, is pronounced as a voiced bilabial fricative.
 * is pronounced retracted, with slight retroflexion.
 * and are usually pronounced as voiced uvular fricatives  and.
 * Although and  are phonetically realized as fricatives  and  in many environments, they are very much the voiced counterparts of the voiceless affricates with respect to phonological rules.
 * The labialization contrast in the palato-velar and uvular consonants is found only before the vowels and word-finally.