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Waimoa language
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<h2 id="phonology">Phonology</h2> <p>Waimoa has <a href="/facts/Aspirated_consonant/Kat42tA6">aspirated</a>/voiceless and glottalized/ejective consonants, which are distributed like /hC/ and /ʔC/ consonant clusters (or perhaps /Ch/ and /Cʔ/) but are often pronounced as single segments.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> Waimoa plosives<table><tbody><tr><th></th><th><a href="/facts/Bilabial_consonant/q2H5MUAe">Bilabial</a></th><th><a href="/facts/Coronal_consonant/nJA2jL4n">Coronal</a></th><th><a href="/facts/Velar_consonant/blWClp79">Velar</a></th><th><a href="/facts/Glottal_consonant/rMdEdLxH">Glottal</a></th></tr><tr><th><a href="/facts/Voiceless_consonant/575TtTUn">Voiceless</a> <a href="/facts/Aspiration_(phonetics)/Kat42tA6">unaspirated</a></th><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Voiceless_alveolar_plosive/1GaDe2Vy">t</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Voiceless_velar_plosive/dDppVb6e">k</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Glottal_stop/Xfqy2ArP">ʔ</a></td></tr><tr><th><a href="/facts/Voiceless_consonant/575TtTUn">Voiceless</a> <a href="/facts/Aspiration_(phonetics)/Kat42tA6">aspirated</a></th><td><a href="/facts/Aspirated_consonant/Kat42tA6">pʰ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Aspirated_consonant/Kat42tA6">tʰ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Aspirated_consonant/Kat42tA6">kʰ</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><th><a href="/facts/Voiceless_consonant/575TtTUn">Voiceless</a> <a href="/facts/Ejective_consonant/TDKaffPV">ejective</a></th><td><a href="/facts/Ejective_consonant/TDKaffPV">pʼ ~ pˀ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ejective_consonant/TDKaffPV">tʼ ~ tˀ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ejective_consonant/TDKaffPV">kʼ ~ kˀ</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><th><a href="/facts/Voiced_consonant/VdqrEGQ3">Voiced</a> plain</th><td><a href="/facts/Voiced_bilabial_plosive/6ReC9arR">b</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Voiced_alveolar_plosive/A6hNvmCp">d</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Voiced_velar_plosive/f6udTvfQ">ɡ</a></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Similarly there are voiceless and glottalized /m n l r s w/. </p><p>There is also <a href="/facts/Vowel_harmony/oQfPrTWV">vowel harmony</a>. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Kawaimina/dbfUeh2I">Kawaimina</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Waimoa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) <a href="https://www.ethnologue.com/25/language/wmh" target="_blank">https://www.ethnologue.com/25/language/wmh</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Kirsten Culhane (2021) Waimaʼa consonants: phonology and typological position in Greater Timor. 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>