Editing Slavomolisano dialect (section)

===Consonants===
The consonant system of Molise Slavic is as follows, with parenthesized consonants indicating sounds that appear only as allophones:<ref name=DMAC>Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli ('''2000'''), ''Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso'' (Parte grammaticale).</ref>

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
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! [[labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[dental consonant|Dental]]
! [[palato-alveolar consonant|Palato-<br/>alveolar]]
! [[palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[velar consonant|Velar]]
|-
! [[Plosive]]
|{{IPA link|p}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|b}}
|{{IPA link|t}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|d}}
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|{{IPA link|c}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|ɟ}}
|{{IPA link|k}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|ɡ}}
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! [[Affricate]]
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|{{IPA link|t͡s}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|d͡z}}
|{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|d͡ʒ}}
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! [[Fricative]]
|{{IPA link|f}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|v}}
|{{IPA link|s}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|z}}
|{{IPA link|ʃ}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|ʒ}}
|{{IPA link|ç}}&nbsp;{{IPA link|ʝ}}
|{{IPA link|x}}&nbsp;({{IPA link|ɣ}})
|-
! [[nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPA link|m}}
|{{IPA link|n}}
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|{{IPA link|ɲ}}
|({{IPA link|ŋ}})
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! [[lateral consonant|Lateral]]
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|{{IPA link|l}}
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|{{IPA link|ʎ}}
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|-
! [[trill consonant|Trill]]
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|{{IPA link|r}}
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|-
! [[Approximant]]
|({{IPA link|w}})
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|({{IPA link|j}})
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|}

* Unlike the standard [[Croatian language|Croatian]] [[lect]]s, there are no [[alveolo-palatal consonant|alveolo-palatal]] phonemes {{IPA|/t͡ɕ/}} and {{IPA|/d͡ʑ/}} (ć and đ), as they have largely merged with the palato-alveolar {{IPA|/t͡ʃ/}} and {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}} (č and dž).<ref name=DMAC/> However, in cases where standard Croatian {{IPA|/t͡ɕ/}} reflects Proto-Slavic *jt, the corresponding phoneme in Molise Slavic is instead {{IPA|/c/}}.<ref name=DMAC/> In some cases standard {{IPA|/d͡ʑ/}} corresponds to Molise {{IPA|/ʝ/}}, as in [[Chakavian]].<ref name=DMAC/>
* {{IPA|/f/}}, {{IPA|/d͡z/}}, {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}}, {{IPA|/c/}}, {{IPA|/ɟ/}}, and {{IPA|/ç/}} appear mostly in loanwords.<ref name=DMAC/>
* The velar fricative {{IPA|[ɣ]}} is inserted by some speakers between vowels to eliminate [[Hiatus (linguistics)|hiatus]]; some speakers use {{IPA|[v]}} in this role instead.<ref name=DMAC/> Rarely, {{IPA|[ɣ]}} can appear as an intervocalic allophone of {{IPA|/x/}}.<ref name=DMAC/>
* {{IPA|/n/}} is realized as {{IPA|[ŋ]}} before velar plosives.<ref name=DMAC/>
* A prothetic {{IPA|[j]}} is regularly inserted before initial {{IPA|/i/}}.<ref name=DMAC/>
* A {{IPA|/u̥/}} adjacent to a vowel is realized as a {{IPA|[w]}}.<ref name=DMAC/> Etymologically, it derives from a {{IPA|/v/}} next to an [[Plosive#Voice|unvoiced plosive]]; thus standard Croatian {{IPA|[stvâːr]}} (‘thing’) corresponds to Molise Slavic {{IPA|[ˈstwaːrḁ]}}.<ref name=DMAC/>
* Some speakers realize {{IPA|/ʎ/}} as {{IPA|[j]}}, {{IPA|/ɡʎ/}} as {{IPA|[ɟ]}}, and {{IPA|/kʎ/}} as {{IPA|[c]}}.<ref name=DMAC/>
* After a short vowel, the following consonant may optionally be geminated.<ref name=DMAC/>