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p ʔp           *t               k ʔk ʔk   q ʔq ʔq  
 
 
 
 
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                ʔt̠ʃ                  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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        *ʔtɬ                          
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  m           *n *n̰                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                ʃ           x   χ χʷ           h  
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                          j   w ɰ ɰ̰   ʁ̞ ʁ̞ʷ ʁ̞̰ʷ            
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
      *l *l̰                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Selected languages: Shuswap
UPSID number: 6778
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: N. American, Almosan
The languages has 44 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Spoken by older people in an area of
southcentral British Columbia, Canada. Schwa only appears
in unstressed syllables. Kuipers (1974) notes that "in the
glottalic obstruents glottal and release are
simultaneous", hence these are not interpreted as ejective
or implosive.

Sources:

Kuipers, A.H. 1974. The Shuswap Language. Mouton, The
Hague.