Editing Gǀui dialect (section)

===Other consonants===

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|+Gǀui consonants<ref>Nakagawa, Hirosi. (1996). "[http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68374/1/ASM_S_22_101.pdf An Outline of ǀGui Phonology]". ''African Study Monographs'', Suppl. 22, 101–124.</ref>
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!rowspan=2| [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
!colspan=2| [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
!rowspan=2| [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
!rowspan=2| [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
!rowspan=2| [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]]
!rowspan=2| [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
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! <small>plain</small>
! <small>[[Affricate consonant|affric.]]</small>
|-
! colspan=2| [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
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| ({{IPA link|ŋ}})
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! rowspan=4| [[Stop consonant|Plosive]]
! <small>[[Voicelessness|voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPA link|p}}
| {{IPA link|t}}
| {{IPA link|ts}}
| {{IPA link|c}}
| {{IPA link|k}}
| {{IPA link|q}}
| {{IPA link|ʔ}}
|-
! <small>[[Voice (phonetics)|voiced]]</small>
| {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|d}}
| {{IPA link|dz}}
| {{IPA link|ɟ}}
| {{IPA link|g}}
| {{IPA link|ɢ}}
| 
|-
! <small>[[Aspiration (phonetics)|aspirated]]</small>
| {{IPA link|pʰ}}
| {{IPA link|tʰ}}
| {{IPA link|tsʰ}}
| {{IPA link|cʰ}}
| {{IPA link|kʰ}}
| {{IPA link|qʰ}}
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|-
! <small>[[Ejective consonant|ejective]]</small>
|
| ({{IPA link|tʼ}})
| {{IPA link|tsʼ}}
| {{IPA link|cʼ}}
| {{IPA link|kʼ}}, {{IPA link|kxʼ}}
| {{IPA link|qʼ}}
|
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! rowspan=2| Uvular<br>affrication
! <small>plain</small>
|
| {{IPA|tχ}}
| {{IPA|tsχ}}
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! <small>[[ejective consonant|ejective]]</small>
|
| {{IPA link|tqχʼ}}
| {{IPA link|tsqχʼ}}
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! colspan=2| [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
|
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| {{IPA link|s}}
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| {{IPA link|χ}}
| {{IPA link|h}}
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! colspan=2| [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| {{IPA link|w}}
| {{IPA link|ɾ}}~{{IPA link|l}}
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| {{IPA link|j}}
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Most words are of the form CV, CVV, CVCV, CVN, where C stands for a consonant, V for a vowel, and N for a nasal consonant /m, n/. In CVCV words, only a limited set of consonants /{{IPA|b m ɾ n j w}}/ may occur in medial position (the second syllable). Of these, two /{{IPA|n, ɾ}}/ may not occur at the beginning of a word, and due to restrictions with nasal vowels may be argued to be allophonic. The /{{IPA|n, ɾ}}/ is pronounced {{IPA|[l]}} after a lateral click or a pharyngeal vowel. {{IPA|/ŋ/}} only occurs in [[Ideophone|mimesis]]. {{IPA|/tʼ/}} occurs in a single word, ''t'aa'' 'to carve', which is not widely known.

The palatals, which are unique among Khoisan languages to Gǁana-Gǀui, derive historically from the alveolars before non-pharyngealized vowels. In [[Gǁana language|Gǁana]] this shift has only partly occurred.

{{IPA|/tqχʼ/}} and {{IPA|/tsqχʼ/}} have also been analyzed as {{IPA|/tχʼ/}} and {{IPA|/tsχʼ/}}, the ejective homologues of {{IPA|/tχ/}} and {{IPA|/tsχ/}}.  However, their pronunciation is {{IPA|[tqχʼ]}} and {{IPA|[tsqχʼ]}}.