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Quechua is a perfectly regular language, but a large number of infixes and suffixes change both the overall significance of words and their subtle shades of meaning, allowing great expressiveness. It includes grammatical features such as bipersonal conjugation[?] and conjugation dependent on mental state and veracity of knowledge, spatial and temporal relationships, and many cultural factors.
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labial | alveolar | palatal | velar | uvular | glottal | |
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plosive[?] | p | t | ch | k | q | |
fricative | f | s | j | h | ||
nasal | m | n | ñ | |||
lateral[?] | l | ll | ||||
trill | r | |||||
semivowel | w | y |
The consonant inventory seems a bit strange to Indo-European speakers. None of the plosives or fricatives are voiced; voicing is not phonemic in Quechua. However, in many dialects, each plosive has three forms: simple, with glottal stop, and with aspiration. For example:
simple glottal stop aspirated p p' ph t t' th ch ch' chh k k' kh q q' qh
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