| 1. | There is a palatalised / non-palatalised contrast in Konkani.
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| 2. | There is a palatalised / non-palatalised contrast in Konkani.
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| 3. | The examples in the table below illustrate the formation of palatalised consonants.
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| 4. | The final consonant is either always palatalised, or never.
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| 5. | Again, the final consonant could be always palatalised, or never.
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| 6. | In these forms, the final consonant was always palatalised.
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| 7. | Palatalised consonants contrast with unpalatalised consonant + y clusters.
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| 8. | The forms with an ending could be either palatalised or not, depending on the noun.
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| 9. | Eleven basic phonetic vowels appear, mostly derived from the two phonemic vowels adjacent to palatalised consonants.
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| 10. | For instance, the Gaelic " slender s " is so palatalised that it has become postalveolar.
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