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Inuit language phonology and phonetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Consonants are arranged with five places of articulation: bilabial, alveolar, palatal, velar and uvular; and three manners of articulation: voiceless stops, voiced continuants and nasals, as well as two additional sounds — voiceless fricatives. |
 | | Inupiatun and has an additional manner of articulation - retroflex - which adds two consonants to it, and three consonants to Qawiaraq variants. |
 | | In western Alaska, Qawiaraq and to some degree the Malimiutun variant of Inupiatun retains an additional vowel /ə/ which was present in proto-Inuit and is still present in Yupik, but which has become /i/ or sometimes /a/ in all other dialects. |
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