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===Consonants=== Nuxalk has 29 consonants depicted below in IPA and the [[Americanist phonetic notation|Americanist orthography]] of Davis & Saunders when it differs from the IPA. {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | ! rowspan="2" | [[Labial consonant|Labial]] ! colspan="3" | [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] ! colspan="2" |[[Velar consonant|Velar]] ! colspan="2" | [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]] ! rowspan="2" | [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]] |- ! <small>plain</small> || <small>[[sibilant]]</small> || <small>[[lateral consonant|lateral]]</small> ! <small>[[Palatal consonant|palatal]]</small> || <small>[[labialized velar consonant|labialized]]</small> ! <small>plain</small> || <small>[[labialization|labialized]]</small> |- ! rowspan="2" | [[Stop consonant|Stop]] ! <small>[[aspirated consonant|aspirated]]</small> | {{IPA link|p拾}} {{angle|p}} | {{IPA link|t拾}} {{angle|t}} | {{IPA link|t汀s拾}} {{angle|c}} | {{IPA link|t汀涩拾}} {{angle|茮}} | {{IPA link|c拾}} {{angle|k}} | {{IPA link|k史拾}} {{angle|k史}} | {{IPA link|q拾}} {{angle|q}} | {{IPA link|q史拾}} {{angle|q史}} | |- ! <small>[[ejective consonant|ejective]]</small> | {{IPA link|p始}} {{angle|p虛}} | {{IPA link|t始}} {{angle|t虛}} | {{IPA link|t汀s始}} {{angle|c虛}} | {{IPA link|t汀涩始}} {{angle|茮虛}} | {{IPA link|c始}} {{angle|k虛}} | {{IPA link|k史始}} {{angle|k虛史}} | {{IPA link|q始}} {{angle|q虛}} | {{IPA link|q史始}} {{angle|q虛史}} | {{IPA link|蕯}} |- ! colspan="2" | [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]] | | | {{IPA link|s}} | {{IPA link|涩}} {{angle|艂}} | {{IPA link|莽}} {{angle|x}} | {{IPA link|x史}} | {{IPA link|蠂}} {{angle|x蹋}} | {{IPA link|蠂史}} {{angle|x蹋史}} | ({{IPA link|h}}) |- ! colspan="2" | [[Sonorant]] | {{IPA link|m}} | {{IPA link|n}} | | {{IPA link|l}} | {{IPA link|j}} {{angle|y}} | {{IPA link|w}} | | | |} What are transcribed in the orthography as 'plain' velar consonants are actually palatals, and the sibilants ''{{IPA|s c c虛}}'' palatalize to ''{{IPA|拧 膷 膷虛}}'' before ''{{IPA|x k k虛}}''.
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