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  2. Aspirated consonant - Wikipedia

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    In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most South Asian languages and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.

  3. Voiceless bilabial plosive - Wikipedia

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    Entity (decimal) p Unicode (hex) ... and the consonant is a plosive. ... However aspirated form is almost always pronounced as voiceless labiodental fricative in ...

  4. Voiceless glottal fricative - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, [1] [2] is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant.

  5. Voiced alveolar affricate - Wikipedia

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    The aspirated sound is represented by झ, which also represents [d͡ʒʱ]. There is no marked difference for either one. Ollari: jōnel [d͡zoːnel] 'maize' Nepali: आज /ādza [äd͡zʌ] 'today' Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated versions. The unaspirated is represented by /ज/. The aspirated sound is represented by /झ/. See Nepali ...

  6. Voiced bilabial plosive - Wikipedia

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    Entity (decimal) b Unicode (hex) ... and the consonant is a plosive. ... Aspirated form is articulated as breathy consonant. Thai:

  7. Voice (phonetics) - Wikipedia

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    The consonants start out voiced but become voiceless partway through and allow normal aspiration or ejection. They are [b͡pʰ, d͡tʰ, d͡tsʰ, d͡tʃʰ, ɡ͡kʰ] and [d͡tsʼ, d͡tʃʼ] and a similar series of clicks, Lun Bawang contrasts them with plain voiced and voicelesses like /p, b, b͡p/.

  8. Voiceless retroflex plosive - Wikipedia

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    Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet, the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a plosive. Its place of articulation is retroflex , which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized .

  9. Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are t͡ɕ , t͜ɕ , c͡ɕ and c͜ɕ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are t_s\ and c_s\, though transcribing the stop component with c (c in X-SAMPA) is rare.