The palatalized stop and fricative /tʲ/, /ʃʲ/ are most typically rendered as an alveolo-palatal affricate [tɕ] and fricative [ɕ]. Depending on the speaker, the former can be also realized as the stop [tʲ], the latter as a non-palatalized fricative, postalveolar [ʃ] or retroflex [ʂ]. Before front vowels, palatalized variants of other consonants are also found. [ɴ] and [ʀ] are allophones of /q/ when occurring before nasals and liquids, respectively.