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How to pronounce consonants 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 consonants

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This is why Tamil does not have the aspirated and voiced consonants as in Hindi.
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And second, there are no reliable rules about when consonants should be doubled.
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Each question has words or phrases that have their beginning consonants flipped.
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Special letters may be used to indicate final consonants in stem changing verbs.
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Asterisks mark consonants added in 1994, which are likely also marginal or rare.
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That is, there is a set of ejective consonants and the usual seven-vowel system.
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The rendering of the consonants follows the notation commonly used for Bavarian.
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Moreover, many consonants from Sanskrit and Pali loanwords are generally silent.
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Many consonant clusters have different sounds than their constituent consonants.
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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. ...