Editing Chʼol language (section)

=== Consonants ===
There are 21 consonantal segments in Chʼol. Below is the consonant inventory of Chʼol.<ref>Vázquez Álvarez, Juan Jesús. ''A Grammar of Chol, a Mayan Language''. Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin, 2011; p.34-35</ref>
Corresponding orthography is presented in the angle brackets next to the [[International Phonetic Alphabet chart|IPA symbols]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! colspan=2 |
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[Plosive]]
! {{small|[[Voiceless consonant|voiceless]]}}
| {{IPA link|p}} {{angbr|p}}
|
| {{IPA link|tʲ}} {{angbr|ty}}
| {{IPA link|k}} {{angbr|k}}
| rowspan="3" |{{IPA link|ʔ}} {{angbr|-}}
|-
! {{small|[[Ejective consonant|ejective]]}}
| {{IPA link|pʼ}} {{angbr|pʼ}}
|
| {{IPA link|tʲʼ}} {{angbr|tyʼ}}
| {{IPA link|kʼ}} {{angbr|kʼ}}
|-
! {{small|[[Voiced consonant|voiced]]}}
| {{IPA link|b}} {{angbr|b}}
|
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|-
! rowspan=2 | [[Affricate]]
! {{small|[[Voiceless consonant|voiceless]]}}
|
| {{IPA link|ts}} {{angbr|ts}}
| {{IPA link|tʃ}} {{angbr|ch}}
|
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|-
! {{small|[[Ejective consonant|ejective]]}}
|
| {{IPA link|tsʼ}} {{angbr|tsʼ}}
| {{IPA link|tʃʼ}} {{angbr|chʼ}}
|
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|-
! colspan="2" | [[Fricative]]
|
| {{IPA link|s}} {{angbr|s}}
| {{IPA link|ʃ}} {{angbr|x}}
| {{IPA link|x}} {{angbr|j}}
|
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}} {{angbr|m}}
|
| {{IPA link|ɲ}} {{angbr|ñ}}
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|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Liquid consonant|Liquid]]
! {{small|[[Lateral consonant|lateral]]}}
|
| {{IPA link|l}} {{angbr|l}}
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|-
! {{small|[[Trill consonant|trill]]}}
|
| {{IPA link|r}} {{angbr|r}}
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|-
! colspan="2" | [[Semivowel|Glide]]
| {{IPA link|w}} {{angbr|w}}
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| {{IPA link|j}} {{angbr|y}}
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|}

For the segments in the [[palatal consonants|palatal]] column, [{{IPA link|tʲ}}, {{IPA link|tʲʼ}}] are [[Palatalization (phonetics)|palatalized]] [[alveolar consonants]], and [{{IPA link|tʃ}}, {{IPA link|tʃʼ}}] are [[Palato-alveolar consonant|palato-alveolar affricates]]. Another property of the consonant inventory is that only the labial has a voiced segment [b], which corresponds to the [[Voiced bilabial implosive|voiced bilabial implosive [ɓ]]] in [[Proto-Mayan language|Proto-Mayan]].<ref>Kaufman, Terrence and William M. Norman. ''An outline of Proto-Cholan phonology, morphology and vocabulary. In Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing, ed. by John Justeson and Lyle Campbell, 77-166''. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York, Albany, 1984; p.86-88</ref>

Alveolar sounds [{{IPA link|n}}, {{IPA link|t}}] are only heard as allophones of /{{IPA link|ɲ}}, {{IPA link|ts}}/.