Editing Chickasaw language (section)

===Consonants===
Chickasaw has 16 [[consonant]]s. In the table below, the consonants are written in the standard Chickasaw orthography. The phonetic symbolization of each consonant is written in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] (IPA) to the right of each orthographic letter when the orthography differs from the IPA symbol.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Chickasaw Consonants<ref name="gml287">{{Harvcoltxt|Gordon|Munro|Ladefoged|2001|p=287}}</ref><ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Munro|2005|p=121}}</ref>
|- 
! rowspan="2" | &nbsp;
! rowspan="2" | [[labial consonant|Labial]]
! colspan="2" | [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Postalveolar|Post-<br />alveolar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|- style="font-size: 80%;"
! [[central consonant|central]]
! [[lateral consonant|lateral]]
|-align=center
! [[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
|-align=center
! [[Plosive consonant|Plosive]]
| {{IPA link|p}}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|t}}
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA link|k}}
| {{saltillo}} {{IPAslink|ʔ}}
|-align=center
! [[Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
| &nbsp;
| colspan="2" | &nbsp;
| ch {{IPAslink|tʃ}}
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
|-align=center
! [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
| {{IPA link|f}}
| {{IPA link|s}}
| lh {{IPAslink|ɬ}}
| sh {{IPAslink|ʃ}}
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA link|h}}
|-align=center
! [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA link|l}}
| y {{IPAslink|j}}
| {{IPA link|w}}
| &nbsp;
|}

* {{IPA|/w/}} is [[Voiced labio-velar approximant|labiovelar]].
* Voiceless stops {{IPA|/p t k/}} have a small amount of [[Aspiration (phonetics)|aspiration]] {{IPA|[pʰ tʰ kʰ]}}, especially at the beginning of words.<ref name="gml287" />
* The voiced stop {{IPA|/b/}} may undergo [[lenition]] to a voiced fricative {{IPA|[β]}} between vowels.<ref name="gml287" />
* All consonants except for the [[glottal stop]] may be geminated and most consonants can occur in biconsonantal clusters.<ref name="gml287" />