Editing Guugu Yimithirr language (section)

==Phonology==

===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
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! [[Front vowel|Front]]
! [[Back vowel|Back]]
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! [[High vowel|High]]
| {{IPA link|i|i iː}}
| {{IPA link|u|u uː}}
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! [[Low vowel|Low]]
|colspan="2"| {{IPA link|ä|a aː}}
|}
Short {{IPA|/u/}} may be realised  as unrounded {{IPAblink|ɯ}}, and unstressed {{IPA|/a/}} may be reduced to {{IPAblink|ə}}.

===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
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!rowspan="2"|
!colspan="2"| [[Peripheral consonant|Peripheral]]
!colspan="2"| [[Laminal consonant|Laminal]]
!colspan="2"| [[Apical consonant|Apical]]
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! [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Dental consonant|Dental]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
|-
! [[Stop consonant|Stop]]
| {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|ɡ}}
| {{IPA link|ɟ}}
| {{IPA link|d̪}}
| {{IPA link|d}}
| {{IPA link|ɖ}}
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! [[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|ŋ}}
| {{IPA link|ɲ}}
| {{IPA link|n̪}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
| {{IPA link|ɳ}}
|-
! [[Lateral consonant|Lateral]]
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| {{IPA link|l}}
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! [[Rhotic consonant|Rhotic]]
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| {{IPA link|r}}
| {{IPA link|ɻ}}
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! [[Semivowel]]
|colspan="2"| {{IPA link|w}}
| {{IPA link|j}}
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The stops are usually voiceless and unaspirated initially and after short vowels, and voiced after consonants and long vowels.

The retroflexes {{IPA|[ɖ ɳ]}} may not be single phonemes, but clusters of {{IPA|/ɻd ɻn/}}. However, there is at least one word which, for older speakers, is pronounced with a word-initial retroflex: ''run'', which is {{IPA|[ɖudaː]}} or {{IPA|[ɖuɖaː]}}.

The rhotic {{IPA|/r/}} is normally a [[flap consonant|flap]] {{IPAblink|ɾ}}, but may be a [[trill consonant|trill]] in emphatic speech.

===Phonotactics===
All words, with the exception of a couple of [[interjection]]s, begin with one consonant. The consonant can be a stop, nasal, or semivowel (that is, {{IPA|/l r ɻ/}} do not occur initially).

Words can end in either a vowel or a consonant. The allowed word-final consonants are {{IPA|/l r ɻ j n n̪/}}.

Within words, any consonant can occur, as well as clusters of up to three consonants, which cannot occur initially or finally.