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When geminate, the epiglottals are a voiceless stop and fricative. en.wikipedia.org

The physical hardware for constructing the nasals, plosives and fricatives that most consonants require was not present, however. en.wikipedia.org

There are also invariably voiced fricatives, though the latter is marginal. en.wikipedia.org

Consonant clusters are uncommon, aside from placing / / or / / before fricatives, which is frequent. en.wikipedia.org

As a result, many stops have become fricatives and many fricatives have become glides or completely disappeared. en.wikipedia.org

The fricatives /s/ and /f/ are usually voiceless but, in some instances, vary with their voiced counterparts. en.wikipedia.org

The voiceless laterals are true fricatives, not voiceless approximants; the retroflex lateral is highly unusual among the world's languages. en.wikipedia.org

Geminated stops and affricates are voiceless and non-geminated stops and affricates are voiced fricatives. en.wikipedia.org

To be specific, they are pronounced either as stops or fricatives (spirantized). en.wikipedia.org

Historically, this occurred so often with the voiced uvular fricative that it disappeared entirely from the language. en.wikipedia.org

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