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fricative <a fricative; fricatives> N

fricative ADJ

fricative <a fricative; fricatives> N

fricative LING

fricative ADJ LING

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The voiced velar fricative occurs as a late variant of the emphatic voiced interdental.
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As a result, many stops have become fricatives and many fricatives have become glides or completely disappeared.
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Later, the palato-alveolar fricative x changed into the velar fricative, while ch stay unchanged.
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Geminated stops and affricates are voiceless and non-geminated stops and affricates are voiced fricatives.
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There are also invariably voiced fricatives, though the latter is marginal.
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The nasal vowels do not occur except before a fricative and in word-final position.
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Geminate fricatives, nasals, and are realized as lengthened continuants.
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Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which do produce a turbulent airstream, and vowels, which produce no turbulence.
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Consonant clusters are uncommon, aside from placing / / or / / before fricatives, which is frequent.
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This phonation (often referred to as murmur) also occurs in zero onset syllables, syllables beginning with affricates and fricatives, and syllables beginning with sonorants.
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