Editing Afar language (section)

===Consonants===
The consonants of the Afar language in the standard orthography are listed below in angle brackets (preceded by the IPA notation):

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! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Pharyngeal consonant|Pharyngeal]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
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! rowspan="2" | [[Plosive]]
! <small>voiceless</small>
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| {{IPAlink|t}} {{angbr|t}}
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| {{IPAlink|k}} {{angbr|k}}
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! <small>voiced</small>
| {{IPAlink|b}} {{angbr|b}}
| {{IPAlink|d}} {{angbr|d}}
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| {{IPAlink|ɡ}} {{angbr|g}}
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! rowspan="2" | [[Fricative]]
! <small>voiceless</small>
| {{IPAlink|f}} {{angbr|f}}
| {{IPAlink|s}} {{angbr|s}}
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| {{IPAlink|ħ}} {{angbr|c}}
| {{IPAlink|h}} {{angbr|h}}
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! <small>voiced</small>
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| {{IPAlink|ʕ}} {{angbr|q}}
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! colspan="2" | [[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
| {{IPAlink|m}} {{angbr|m}}
| {{IPAlink|n}} {{angbr|n}}
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! colspan="2" | [[Approximant]]
| {{IPAlink|w}} {{angbr|w}}
| {{IPAlink|l}} {{angbr|l}}
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| {{IPAlink|j}} {{angbr|y}}
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! colspan="2" | [[Tap consonant|Tap]]
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| {{IPAlink|ɾ}} {{angbr|r}}
| {{IPAlink|ɽ}} {{angbr|x}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hamann|first1=Silke|last2=Fuchs|first2=Susanne|date=June 2010|orig-year=2008|title=How do voiced retroflex stops evolve? Evidence from typology and an articulatory study.|journal=Language and Speech|volume=53|issue=2|pages=181–216|doi=10.1177/0023830909357159|pmid=20583729|s2cid=23502367}}</ref>
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Voiceless stop consonants which close syllables are released, e.g., {{IPA|[ʌkʰˈme]}}.