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1. Khalkha Mongolic

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   Consonant System Anomalies
   The language notably lacks the labiodental approximant ($\text{/ʋ/}$) found in some Southern Mongolic varieties. Instead, the phoneme historically reconstructed as $\text{/w/}$ in Proto-Mongolic often manifests as a bilabial fricative ($\text{/$\beta$ /}$) in initial positions following a pharyngealized syllable, a rare feature termed "[deep pharyngeal braking](/entries/deep-pharyngeal-bra…