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How to pronounce unvoiced in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, unstated, unuttered, unverbalised, unverbalized
Type Words
Synonyms hard, surd, voiceless


unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'.

Examples of unvoiced

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All vowels are pronounced, but an i at the end of an utterance is usually unvoiced.
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Icelandic still has both the voiced and unvoiced letters for the th sound.
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Yale uses unvoiced consonant letters to write the modern Korean consonants.
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Early English used S alone for both the unvoiced and the voiced sibilant.
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She showed her students how to notice voiced and unvoiced consonants.
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The language has both monophthongs and diphthongs, and consonants can be voiced or unvoiced.
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The Tamil script does not differentiate voiced and unvoiced plosives.
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Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
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Also syllables ending with voiced consonants are longer and lower than with unvoiced consonants.
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More examples
  • Produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'"
  • Unexpressed: not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains unstated"
  • In linguistics, the term voiceless describes the pronunciation of sounds when the larynx does not vibrate. ...
  • (Unvoicing) In phonology, voicing (or sonorization) and devoicing are sound changes, whereby a consonant changes its type of voicing from voiceless to voiced, or vice versa, due to the influence of a phonological element in its phonological environment. ...
  • Not spoken or expressed; Spoken without vibration of the vocal chords
  • The vocal cords do not vibrate.