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===Consonants=== Mam has 27 [[consonant]]s, including the [[glottal stop]]:{{sfn|England|1983}} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" | ! rowspan="2" | [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]] ! rowspan="2" | [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] ! rowspan="2" | [[Postalveolar consonant|Postalveolar]] ! rowspan="2" | [[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]] ! rowspan="2" | [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]] ! colspan="2" | [[Velar consonant|Velar]] ! rowspan="2" | [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]] ! rowspan="2" | [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]] |- ! <small>Plain</small> ! <small>[[Palatalization (phonetics)|Palatalized]]</small> |- ! colspan="2" | [[Nasal stop|Nasal]] | {{IPAlink|m}} {{grapheme|m}} | {{IPAlink|n}} {{grapheme|n}} | | | | ({{IPAlink|ŋ}} {{grapheme|n}}) | | | |- ! rowspan="3" | [[Plosive]] ! <small>Plain</small> | {{IPAlink|p}} {{grapheme|p}} | {{IPAlink|t}} {{grapheme|t}} | | | | {{IPAlink|k}} {{grapheme|k}} | {{IPAlink|kʲ}} {{grapheme|ky}} | {{IPAlink|q}} {{grapheme|q}} | rowspan="2" | {{IPAlink|ʔ}} {{grapheme|{{hamza}}}} |- ! <small>[[Ejective consonant|Ejective]]</small> | | rowspan="2" | {{IPAlink|tʼ}}~{{IPAlink|ɗ̥}} {{grapheme|tʼ}} | | | | {{IPAlink|kʼ}} {{grapheme|kʼ}} | {{IPAlink|kʲʼ}} {{grapheme|kyʼ}} | |- !<small>[[Implosive consonant|Implosive]]</small> |{{IPAlink|ɓ}}~{{IPAlink|ɓ̥}} {{grapheme|bʼ}} | | | | | |{{IPAlink|ʛ̥}} {{grapheme|qʼ}} | |- ! rowspan="2" | [[Affricate]] ! <small>Plain</small> | | {{IPAlink|t͡s}} {{grapheme|tz}} | {{IPAlink|t͡ʃ}} {{grapheme|ch}} | {{IPAlink|ʈ͡ʂ}} {{grapheme|tx}} | | | | | |- ! [[Ejective consonant|<small></small>]]<small>[[Glottalic consonant|Ejective]]</small> | | {{IPAlink|t͡sʼ}} {{grapheme|tzʼ}} | {{IPAlink|t͡ʃʼ}} {{grapheme|chʼ}} | {{IPAlink|ʈ͡ʂʼ}} {{grapheme|txʼ}} | | | | | |- ! colspan="2" | [[Fricative]] | | {{IPAlink|s}} {{grapheme|s}} | {{IPAlink|ʃ}} {{grapheme|ẍ (xh)}} | {{IPAlink|ʂ}} {{grapheme|x}} | | | | {{IPAlink|χ}} {{grapheme|j}} | |- ! colspan="2" | [[Flap consonant|Flap]] | | {{IPAlink|ɾ}} {{grapheme|r}} | | | | | | | |- ! colspan="2" | [[Approximant]] | | {{IPAlink|l}} {{grapheme|l}} | | | {{IPAlink|j}} {{grapheme|y}} | {{IPAlink|w}} {{grapheme|w}} | | | |} * Stop sounds /p, t, t͡s, t͡ʃ, t͡ʂ, k, q/ are released with aspiration [Cʰ] in word-final position. * Todos Santos Mam has an extended amount of affricate consonants being apical palato-alveolar {{IPA|/t̺͡ʃ̺ʰ, t̺͡ʃ̺ʼ, ʃ̺/}}.<ref>{{Cite book|last=England|first=Nora C.|title=Mam|publisher=London & New York: Routledge.|year=2017|location=The Mayan Languages|pages=500–532}}</ref>
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