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Catalan (Southern Valencian)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Romance

Lat/lon: 39.0, -0.2

ISO code: cat

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentaldentalalveolarpostalveolarpalatalvelar
stopp, bt̪, d̪k, g
trill
tapɾ̺
fricativef, vs̺, z̺ʃ
affricatets̺, dz̺tʃ, dʒ
nasalmɲ̟ŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantʎ̟

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closei, i̯u, u̯
close-mideo
open-midɛ̞ɔ̞
opena

Licit initial clusters

TL

Licit finals

C(s̺), LT(s̺), NT(s̺)

Licit syllabic templates

(C(L))V(C(C)(s̺))

Source: Lloret, Maria-Rosa. 2011. La fonologia del català. Col. «El que sabem de...» Articles de suport a la docència. Barcelona: Santillana.

Comments: T = obstruent.

Contributed by: André Nikulin (andre.n.guzman@gmail.com)