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(alternatively, advanced tongue root) harmony. In total, the language contains some 39 consonantal and 9 vowel phonemes.

It also has a large number of complex sound transformations which often change the phones of words due to the influence of other (sometimes invisible) sounds.

Consonants

# is an allophone of , occurring only before the close vowels ( and ). Dialectical evidence shows that in the Sotho-Tswana

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