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How to pronounce consonant in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable
Type Words
Synonyms harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized
Derivation consonance
Type Words
Type of letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
Type Words
Type of sound, speech sound, phone
Has types geminate, guttural, guttural consonant, labial, labial consonant, labiodental, labiodental consonant, liquid, nasal, nasal consonant, obstruent, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant, surd, velar, velar consonant, voiceless consonant, lingual, alveolar, alveolar consonant, aspirate, dental, dental consonant
Derivation consonantal

Examples of consonant

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This limitation on consonant clusters is not quite universal across Inuit areas.
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To reduce the length of speech there are two systems to reduce consonant length.
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The voiceless alveolar sibilant is a common consonant sound in spoken languages.
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Bemba indicates causative verbs through alternation of the stem-final consonant.
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Not all consonant apophony in Germanic verbs is caused by grammatischer Wechsel.
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Many consonant clusters have different sounds than their constituent consonants.
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Tamil phonology permits few consonant clusters, which can never be word initial.
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The consonant inventory for North Carolina Cherokee is given in the table below.
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Hawaiian syllables may contain one consonant in the onset, or there is no onset.
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More examples
  • A speech sound that is not a vowel
  • Involving or characterized by harmony
  • A letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
  • Accordant: in keeping; "salaries agreeable with current trends"; "plans conformable with your wishes"; "expressed views concordant with his background"
  • (consonance) the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
  • (consonance) the property of sounding harmonious
  • Consonant is an alternative rock group formed by singer/guitarist Clint Conley in 2001.
  • In music, consonance and dissonance form a structural dichotomy in which the terms define each other by mutual exclusion: a consonance is what is not dissonant, and reciprocally. However, a finer consideration shows that the distinction forms a gradation, from the most consonant to the most dissonant...
  • (Consonancy) In logic, a consistent theory is one that does not contain a contradiction. The lack of contradiction can be defined in either semantic or syntactic terms. ...