Editing Lakota language (section)

===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan=2|
! [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
! [[Dental consonant|Dental]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Postalveolar consonant|Postalveolar]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]]<ref name="rood96" /><ref name="lako04">(2004). [http://www.lakhota.org/ALPHABET/alphabet.htm Lakota letters and sounds].</ref>
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal stop|Nasals]]
| {{IPA link|m}} {{angbr|m}}
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| {{IPA link|n}} {{angbr|n}}
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| {{IPA link|ŋ}} {{angbr|ň}}
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! rowspan="4" | [[Plosives]]<br/>and [[affricate consonant|affricates]]
! <small>[[voiceless consonant|voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPA link|p}} {{angbr|p}}
| {{IPA link|t}} {{angbr|t}}
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| {{IPA link|tʃ}} {{angbr|č}}
| {{IPA link|k}} {{angbr|k}}
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| {{IPA link|ʔ}} {{angbr|ʼ}}
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! <small> [[voiced consonant|voiced]]</small>
| {{IPA link|b}} {{angbr|b}}
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| {{IPA link|ɡ}} {{angbr|g}}
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! <small>[[aspiration (phonetics)|aspirated]]</small>
| {{IPA link|pʰ}} {{angbr|ph}} /<br>{{IPA|pˣ}} {{angbr|pȟ}}
| {{IPA link|tʰ}} {{angbr|th}} /<br>{{IPA|tˣ}} {{angbr|tȟ}}
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| {{IPA link|tʃʰ}} {{angbr|čh}} 
| {{IPA link|kʰ}} {{angbr|kh}} /<br>{{IPA|kˣ}} {{angbr|kȟ}}
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! <small>[[ejective consonant|ejective]]</small>
| {{IPA link|pʼ}} {{angbr|pʼ}}
| {{IPA link|tʼ}} {{angbr|tʼ}}
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| {{IPA link|tʃʼ}} {{angbr|čʼ}}
| {{IPA link|kʼ}} {{angbr|kʼ}}
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! rowspan="3" | [[Fricative]]
! <small>[[voiceless consonant|voiceless]]</small>
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| {{IPA link|s}} {{angbr|s}}
| {{IPA link|ʃ}} {{angbr|š}}
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| {{IPA link|χ}} {{angbr|ȟ}}
|{{IPA link|h}} {{angbr|h}}
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! <small>[[Voiced consonant|voiced]]</small>
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| {{IPA link|z}} {{angbr|z}}
| {{IPA link|ʒ}} {{angbr|ž}}
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| {{IPA link|ʁ}} {{angbr|ǧ}}
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! <small>[[ejective consonant|ejective]]</small>
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| {{IPA link|sʼ}} {{angbr|sʼ}}
| {{IPA link|ʃʼ}} {{angbr|šʼ}}
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| {{IPA link|χʼ}} {{angbr|ȟʼ}}
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! colspan="2" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| {{IPA link|w}} {{angbr|w}}
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| {{IPA link|l}} {{angbr|l}}
| {{IPA link|j}} {{angbr|y}}
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The [[voiced uvular fricative]] {{IPA|/ʁ/}} becomes a [[uvular trill]] ({{IPA|[ʀ]}}) before {{IPA|/i/}}<ref name="rood96">Rood, David S., and Taylor, Allan R. (1996). [https://web.archive.org/web/20050405024744/http://lakxotaiyapi.freecyberzone.com/sk1uni.htm Sketch of Lakhota, a Siouan Language, Part I]. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 17 (Languages), pp. 440–482.</ref><ref name="lako04"/> and in fast speech it is often realized as a [[voiced velar fricative]] {{IPA|[ɣ]}}. The voiceless aspirated plosives have two allophonic variants each: those with a delay in voicing {{IPA|([pʰ tʰ kʰ])}}, and those with velar friction {{IPA|([pˣ tˣ kˣ])}}, which occur before {{IPA|/a/}}, {{IPA|/ã/}}, {{IPA|/o/}}, {{IPA|/ĩ/}}, and {{IPA|/ũ/}} (thus, {{lang|lkt|lakhóta}}, {{IPA|/laˈkʰota/}} is phonetically {{IPA|[laˈkˣota]}}). For some speakers, there is a phonemic distinction between the two, and both occur before {{IPA|/e/}}. No such variation occurs for the affricate /tʃʰ/. Some orthographies mark this distinction; others do not. The uvular fricatives {{IPA|/χ/}} and {{IPA|/ʁ/}} are commonly spelled {{angle bracket|ȟ}} and {{angle bracket|ǧ}}.

All [[morpheme|monomorphemic]] words have one vowel which carries primary [[stress (linguistics)|stress]] and has a higher tone than all other vowels in the word. This is generally the vowel of the second syllable of the word, but often the first syllable can be stressed, and occasionally other syllables as well. Stress is generally indicated with an acute accent: {{angle bracket|á}}, etc. Compound words will have stressed vowels in each component; proper spelling will write compounds with a hyphen. Thus {{lang|lkt|máza-ská}}, literally "metal-white", i.e. "silver; money" has two stressed vowels, the first ''a'' in each component. If it were written without the hyphen, as {{lang|lkt|mazaska}}, it would imply a single main stress.