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In linguistics, a consonant is a speech sound that is produced by restricting or obstructing the airflow from the vocal cords. Unlike vowels, which have a relatively open or unobstructed airflow, consonants involve some form of constriction or closure in the vocal tract. Examples of consonants include the sounds /p/, /t/, /s/, and /n/
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Groups of consonants are created using extra vowels.
I am just having trouble with these consonants.
Replacing vowels by consonants and vice versa.
These consonants may be variably elided or conserved.
Clusters of two or more consonants form a ligature.
Consonants that exist only in borrowed words.
Palatalisation of the uvular consonants is no longer phonemic.
Consonants which are only allophonic appear in parentheses.
It also treats coda consonants in a distinctive way.
The consonants were the same as in the cluster.
Lenition of all single consonants between vowels.
Final consonants are usually pronounced at ends of phrases.
Development of a series of palatal consonants as a result of palatalization.
The consonants are shown in the following table.
We will concentrate on consonants rather than vowels.

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All consonants could be palatalized in this fashion.
We combine vowels and consonants to form words.
Apical consonants are either alveolar or postalveolar.
His pronunciation of vowels and consonants is typical of.
Doubled consonants can show irregular stress.
In some forms we see all of these consonants.
Unaspirated consonants become voiced after nasals.
Its quality depends on the adjacent consonants.
Number of consonants denotes number of oxygen atoms.
There is also a length distinctions for consonants.
The long consonants only appear intervocalically.
It also has the syllabic consonants ii and rr.
Neutral consonants may take either character.
Most languages have only pulmonic consonants.
Loss of final consonants in a word standing alone.
Speakers tend to fail to geminate double consonants.
Some vowels and consonants were difficult to distinguish.
It was pronounced as a voiced before voiced consonants.
Glottalization of consonants was represented with an apostrophe.
Burmese permits the palatalisation of certain consonants.
Not all consonants are equally frequent.
Several morphological processes cause consonants to be palatalized.
The affected consonants may be identical or different.
It has three vowels and fourteen consonants.
The retroflex consonants are apical postalveolar.
All dialects retain before voiceless consonants.
Massachusett consonants lack voicing and aspiration.
Hopi dialects differ in their number of consonants.
Bilabial consonants are made with both lips.
Stops are voiced when following nasal consonants.
All consonants according to the phonological hierarchy.
The five qalqalah letters are the consonants ق ط د ج ب.
Consonants move two places to the left.
We need five consonants and one vowel.
Consonants are by relative variations in the formant frequencies.

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