Editing Tatar language (section)

=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ caption | '''The consonants of Tatar'''<ref name="Berta" />
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! colspan="2" | 
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Dental consonant|Dental]]
! [[Postalveolar|Post-<br />alveolar]]
! [[Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]]
! [[glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|- align=center
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal stop|Nasals]]
| м{{nbsp}}⟨m⟩<br />{{IPAslink|m}}
| н{{nbsp}}⟨n⟩<br />{{IPAslink|n̪|n}}
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| ң{{nbsp}}⟨ñ⟩<br />{{IPAslink|ŋ}}
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|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | [[Plosive consonant|Plosives]]
! <small>[[Voice (phonetics)|Voiceless]]</small>
| п{{nbsp}}⟨p⟩<br />{{IPAslink|p}}
| т{{nbsp}}⟨t⟩<br />{{IPAslink|t̪|t}}
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| к{{nbsp}}⟨k⟩<br />{{IPAslink|k}}
| къ{{nbsp}}⟨q⟩<br />{{IPAslink|q}}{{ref|uvular|‡}}
| э/ь{{nbsp}}⟨ʼ⟩<br />{{IPAslink|ʔ}}{{ref|loan|*}}
|- align="center"
! <small>[[Voice (phonetics)|Voiced]]</small>
| б{{nbsp}}⟨b⟩<br />{{IPAslink|b}}
| д{{nbsp}}⟨d⟩<br />{{IPAslink|d̪|d}}
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| г{{nbsp}}⟨g⟩<br />{{IPAslink|ɡ}}
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|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | [[Affricate]]s
! <small>Voiceless</small>
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| ц{{nbsp}}⟨ts⟩<br />{{IPAslink|ts}}{{ref|loan|*}}{{ref|dialect|†}}
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| ч{{nbsp}}⟨ç⟩<br />{{IPAslink|tɕ}}{{ref|loan|*}}{{ref|dialect|†}}
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|- align=center
! <small>Voiced</small>
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| җ{{nbsp}}⟨c⟩<br />{{IPAslink|dʑ}}{{ref|dialect|†}}
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|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | [[Fricative]]s
! <small>Voiceless</small>
| ф{{nbsp}}⟨f⟩<br />{{IPAslink|f}}{{ref|loan|*}}
| с{{nbsp}}⟨s⟩<br />{{IPAslink|s̪|s}}
| ш{{nbsp}}⟨ş⟩<br />{{IPAslink|ʃ}}
| ч{{nbsp}}⟨ś⟩<br />{{IPAslink|ɕ}}
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| х{{nbsp}}⟨x⟩<br />{{IPAslink|χ}}
| һ{{nbsp}}⟨h⟩<br />{{IPAslink|h}}{{ref|loan|*}}
|- align=center
! <small>Voiced</small>
| в{{nbsp}}⟨v⟩<br />{{IPAslink|v}}{{ref|loan|*}}
| з{{nbsp}}⟨z⟩<br />{{IPAslink|z̪|z}}
| ж{{nbsp}}⟨j⟩<br />{{IPAslink|ʒ}}{{ref|loan|*}}
| җ{{nbsp}}⟨ź⟩<br />{{IPAslink|ʑ}}
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| гъ{{nbsp}}⟨ğ⟩<br />{{IPAslink|ʁ}}{{ref|uvular|‡}}
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|- align=center
! colspan="2" | [[Trill consonant|Trill]]
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| р{{nbsp}}⟨r⟩<br />{{IPAslink|r}}
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! colspan="2" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximants]]
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| л{{nbsp}}⟨l⟩<br />{{IPAslink|l}}
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| й{{nbsp}}⟨y⟩<br />{{IPAslink|j}}
| у/ү/в{{nbsp}}⟨w⟩<br />{{IPAslink|w}}
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;Notes:
:{{note|loan|*}} The phonemes {{IPAslink|v}}, {{IPAslink|ts}}, {{IPAslink|tɕ}}, {{IPAslink|ʒ}},  {{IPAslink|h}}, {{IPAslink|ʔ}} are only found in loanwords. {{IPAslink|f}} occurs more commonly in loanwords, but is also found in native words, e.g. ''yafraq'' 'leaf'.<ref name="Berta" /> {{IPAslink|v}}, {{IPAslink|ts}}, {{IPAslink|tɕ}}, {{IPAslink|ʒ}} may be substituted with the corresponding native consonants {{IPAslink|w}}, {{IPAslink|s̪|s}}, {{IPAslink|ɕ}}, {{IPAslink|ʑ}} by some Tatars.
:{{note|dialect|†}} {{IPAslink|dʑ}} and {{IPAslink|tɕ}} are the dialectal Western (Mişär) pronunciations of '''җ'''{{nbsp}}⟨'''c'''⟩{{nbsp}}{{IPAslink|ʑ}} and '''ч'''{{nbsp}}⟨'''ç'''⟩{{nbsp}}{{IPAslink|ɕ}}, the latter are in the literary standard and in the Central (Kazan) dialect. {{IPAslink|ts}} is the variant of '''ч'''{{nbsp}}⟨'''ç'''⟩{{nbsp}}{{IPAslink|ɕ}} as pronounced in the Eastern (Siberian) dialects and some Western (Mişär) dialects. Both {{IPAslink|tɕ}} and {{IPAslink|ts}} are also used in Russian loanwords (the latter written '''ц''').
:{{note|uvular|‡}} {{IPAslink|q}} and {{IPAslink|ʁ}} are usually considered allophones of {{IPAslink|k}} and {{IPAslink|ɡ}} in the environment of back vowels, so they are never written in the Tatar Cyrillic orthography in native words, and only rarely in loanwords with '''къ''' and '''гъ'''. However, {{IPAslink|q}} and {{IPAslink|ʁ}} also appear before front {{IPAslink|æ}} in Perso-Arabic loanwords which may indicate the phonemic status of these uvular consonants.

==== Palatalization ====
Tatar consonants usually undergo slight [[Palatalization (phonetics)|palatalization]] before front vowels. However, this [[allophony]] is not significant and does not constitute a phonemic status. This differs from Russian where palatalized consonants are not [[allophone]]s but [[phoneme]]s on their own. There are a number of Russian loanwords which have palatalized consonants in Russian and are thus written the same in Tatar (often with the "soft sign" '''[[ь]]'''). The Tatar standard pronunciation also requires palatalization in such loanwords; however, some Tatar may pronounce them non-palatalized.