Editing Veps language (section)

===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|+ Consonant phonemes of Veps<ref>{{harvp|Zaitseva|1981|page=24}}</ref>
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" |
! colspan="2" | [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! colspan="2" | [[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br/>[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br/>alveolar]]/<br/>[[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! colspan="2" | [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! colspan="2" | [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! <small>plain</small>
! <small>[[Palatalization (phonetics)|palat.]]</small>
! <small>plain</small>
! <small>[[Palatalization (phonetics)|palat.]]</small>
! <small>plain</small>
! <small>[[Palatalization (phonetics)|palat.]]</small>
! <small>plain</small>
! <small>[[Palatalization (phonetics)|palat.]]</small>
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA|m}}
| {{IPA|mʲ}}
| {{IPA|n}}
| {{IPA|nʲ}}
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! rowspan="2" | [[Plosive consonant|Plosive]]
! {{small|[[Voiceless consonant|voiceless]]}}
| {{IPA|p}}
| {{IPA|pʲ}}
| {{IPA|t}}
| {{IPA|tʲ}}
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| {{IPA|k}}
| {{IPA|kʲ}}
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|-
! {{small|[[Voiced consonant|voiced]]}}
| {{IPA|b}}
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| {{IPA|d}}
| {{IPA|dʲ}}
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| {{IPA|ɡ}}
| {{IPA|ɡʲ}}
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|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
! {{small|voiceless}}
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| {{IPA|ts}}
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| {{IPA|tʃ}}
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! {{small|voiced}}
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| {{IPA|dʒ}}
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! rowspan=2| [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
! {{small|voiceless}}
| {{IPA|f}}
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| {{IPA|s}}
| {{IPA|sʲ}}
| {{IPA|ʃ}}
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! {{small|voiced}}
| {{IPA|v}}
| {{IPA|vʲ}}
| {{IPA|z}}
| {{IPA|zʲ}}
| {{IPA|ʒ}}
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| {{IPA|h}}
| {{IPA|hʲ}}
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
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| {{IPA|l}}
| {{IPA|lʲ}}
| {{IPA|j}}
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! colspan="2" | [[Trill consonant|Trill]]
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| {{IPA|r}}
| {{IPA|rʲ}}
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====Palatalization====
In general, palatalizable consonants are palatalized [[Allophone|allophonically]] before a front vowel. However, palatalized consonants also occur in other environments, especially in word-final position or in word-final clusters.

There are some cases where the front vowel {{IPA|/i/}} is preceded by a non-palatalized consonant. In native Finnic vocabulary, this occurs where inflectional endings beginning with {{IPA|/i/}} are attached to words with a stem ending in a non-palatalized consonant. The consonant is not palatalized by {{IPA|/i/}} in this case, but remains non-palatalized by analogy with the other inflected forms. The vowel {{IPA|/i/}} is backed to {{IPA|[ɨ]}} in this case, as in Russian, making it unclear whether the palatalization is a consequence of the front vowel, or the backing is the result of the lack of palatalization. Either analysis is possible.

Compare:
* {{lang|vep|norʹ}} {{IPA|/norʲ/}} ("young"), genitive singular {{lang|vep|noren}} {{IPA|/norʲen/}}, partitive plural {{lang|vep|norid}} {{IPA|/norʲid/}}
* {{lang|vep|nor}} {{IPA|/nor/}} ("rope"), genitive singular {{lang|vep|noran}} {{IPA|/norɑn/}}, partitive plural {{lang|vep|norid}} {{IPA|/norid/}} (or {{IPA|/norɨd/}})

Russian loanwords have also introduced instances of non-palatalized consonants followed by {{IPA|/i/}}, which are much more frequent in that language.

The phoneme {{IPA|/e/}} can also in some cases be preceded by non-palatalized consonants, for example in the allative ending {{lang|vep|-le}}.