Editing Koasati language (section)

===Consonants===
Koasati has the consonants given in the table below, based on Geoffrey Kimball's work.<ref>Geoffrey Kimball.  1991.  ''Koasati Grammar''.  Reprinted in 1994 in:  ''Koasati Grammar''.  Nebraska:  University of Nebraska Press.</ref> [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] transcriptions occur in brackets when different from the orthography provided by Kimball.
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! colspan=2 |
! align="center"|[[Bilabial consonant|Labial]]
! align="center"|[[Dental consonant|Dental]]
! align="center"|[[Postalveolar consonant|Palato-alveolar]]
! align="center"|[[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! align="center"|[[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
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! rowspan=2 | [[Stop consonant|Stop]]
! <small>[[Voiceless consonant|plain]]</small>
| align=center | '''p''' {{IPAblink|pʰ}}
| align=center | '''t''' {{IPAblink|tʰ}}
| align=center | '''c''' {{IPAblink|t͡ʃʰ}}
| align=center | '''k''' {{IPAblink|kʰ}}
| align=center | '''ʼ''' {{IPAblink|ʔ}}
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! <small>[[Voiced consonant|voiced]]</small>
| align=center | '''b'''
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! rowspan=2 |[[Fricative]]
! <small>[[Voiceless consonant|plain]]</small>
| align=center|'''f''' {{IPAblink|ɸ}}
| align=center|'''th''' {{IPAblink|ɬ}}
| align=center|'''s'''
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| align=center|'''h''' {{IPAblink|h}}
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! <small>[[Voiced consonant|voiced]]</small>
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| align=center|'''h''' {{IPAblink|ɦ}}
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! colspan="2" align="center" |[[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
| align=center|'''m'''
| align=center|'''n'''
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! colspan="2" align="center" |[[Lateral consonant|Lateral]]
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| align=center|'''l'''
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! colspan="2" align="center" |[[Glide consonant|Glide]]
| align=center|'''w'''
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| align=center|'''y''' {{IPAblink|j}}
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Not included in this chart is a glottal glide (marked ''꞉'') that Kimball uses in his own consonant chart, presumably to represent the lengthened vowel sounds of Koasati. In the Tribe's official orthography, the {{IPAblink|ɬ}} is represented by {{angle bracket|th}} and the {{IPAblink|t͡ʃ}} is represented by {{angle bracket|ch}}, with no distinction for aspiration. Additionally, Kimball notes that {{IPA|/p/, /t/,}} and {{IPA|/k/}} are aspirated in initial and medial positions. However, the website for the Koasati Language Project explicitly states that these consonants are never aspirated.<ref>More on the alphabet. {{cite web |url=http://web.wm.edu/linguistics/coushatta/alphabet2.php |title=More on the alphabet &#124; |access-date=2010-05-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719105458/http://web.wm.edu/linguistics/coushatta/alphabet2.php |archive-date=2010-07-19 }}</ref> The {{IPAblink|ɦ}} occurs most often before {{IPA|[t͡ʃ]}}, as in {{IPA|[haɦt͡ʃí]}} "river", spelled {{angle bracket|hahchi}} in the official orthography, thereby distinguished from {{angle bracket|hachi}} "tail".