Editing Chuvash language (section)

===Consonants===
The consonants are the following (the corresponding Cyrillic letters are in brackets): The [[stop consonant|stop]]s, [[sibilant]]s and [[affricate]]s are [[voiceless]] and [[fortis and lenis|fortes]] but become [[fortis and lenis|lenes]] (sounding similar to [[voiced]]) in intervocalic position and after [[liquid consonant|liquid]]s, [[nasal stop|nasals]] and [[semi-vowel]]s. Аннепе sounds like ''annebe'', but кушакпа sounds like ''kuzhakpa''. However, [[geminate consonant]]s do not undergo this lenition. Furthermore, the voiced consonants occurring in [[Russian language|Russian]] are used in modern Russian-language loans. Consonants also become [[Palatalization (phonetics)|palatalized]] before and after [[front vowel]]s. However, some words like пульчӑклӑ "dirty", present palatalized consonants without preceding or succeeding front vowels, and should be understood that such are actually phonemic:
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! rowspan="2" |[[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! colspan="2" |[[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br>[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! rowspan="2" |[[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br>alveolar]]
! rowspan="2" |[[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! rowspan="2" |[[Velar consonant|Velar]]
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!<small>plain</small>
!<small>[[Palatalization (phonetics)|pal.]]</small>
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![[Stop consonant|Stop]]
| {{IPA link|p}} {{grapheme|п}}
| {{IPA link|t}} {{grapheme|т}}
|{{IPA link|tʲ}} {{grapheme|ть}}
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| {{IPA link|tɕ}} {{grapheme|ч}}
| {{IPA link|k}} {{grapheme|к}}
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![[Fricative]]
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| {{IPA link|s}} {{grapheme|c}}
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| {{IPA link|ʃ}} {{grapheme|ш}}
| {{IPA link|ɕ}} {{grapheme|ҫ}}
| {{IPA link|x}} {{grapheme|x}}
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![[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}} {{grapheme|м}}
| {{IPA link|n}} {{grapheme|н}}
|{{IPA link|nʲ}} {{grapheme|нь}}
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![[Approximant]]
| {{IPA link|ʋ}} {{grapheme|в}}
| {{IPA link|l}} {{grapheme|л}}
|{{IPA link|lʲ}} {{grapheme|ль}}
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| {{IPA link|j}} {{grapheme|й}}
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![[Trill consonant|Trill]]
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| {{IPA link|r}} {{grapheme|p}}
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* {{IPAslink|x}} can have a voiced allophone of {{IPAblink|ɣ}}.