Ferali

Clicks: ǂʼAmkoe has a large number of click sounds, which are produced by a variety of mechanisms (e.g., dental, lateral, and postalveolar clicks). The clicks are classified as: Dental clicks /ǀ/ (like the sound of the tongue clicking against the teeth) Lateral clicks /ǁ/ (tongue clicks made at the side of the mouth) Postalveolar clicks /ǃ/ (similar to the sound made when imitating a "tsk tsk")   Stops and Fricatives: The language also has other consonants like stops and fricatives that occur at various places of articulation, including glottal, bilabial, and velar. Stops: Portuguese has both voiced and voiceless stops, like /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, and /g/. Fricatives: It features a variety of fricatives like /f/, /v/, /s/, and /z/. Voiced fricatives /ʒ/ (as in "measure") and /ʃ/ (as in "shh") are also present.   Nasal consonants like /m/ and /n/ are also present. Nasals: Portuguese has nasal consonants like /m/ and /n/, and nasal vowels are also a key feature of the language. These nasals often occur in word-final positions.   Liquids: It has both a lateral /l/ and a rhotic /ʁ/ (variously pronounced as a guttural or rolled sound depending on the region).   Voicing and Aspiration: Many consonants are voiced or voiceless, and some may be aspirated (produced with an additional breath of air).   ǂʼAmkoe has a relatively simple vowel system. There are five basic vowels /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/, and /u/, with some distinctions between short and long vowels. Portuguese has a wide range of vowel sounds, with distinctions for both oral and nasal vowels. There are seven oral vowels in European Portuguese: /i/, /e/, /ɛ/, /a/, /ɔ/, /o/, /u/, and nasal counterparts like /ĩ/, /ẽ/, etc. Diphthongs: Portuguese also has many diphthongs, such as /ai/ and /ei/, which can appear in both open and closed syllables.   Syllables in ǂʼAmkoe can have a CVC structure (consonant-vowel-consonant), and the clicks typically appear in the onset position of a syllable. Clicks can occur as initial sounds, medial sounds, or in other positions depending on the word. Portuguese tends to favor open syllables and can allow for fairly complex syllable structures, with clusters of consonants (especially in the initial and medial positions) such as /str/ and /pl/.