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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 postalveolar affricate - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant affricate or voiceless domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with t͡ʃ , t͜ʃ tʃ (formerly the ligature ʧ ), or, in broad transcription, c .

  5. Voiced retroflex plosive - Wikipedia

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    Entity (decimal) ɖ Unicode (hex) U+0256: ... and the consonant is a plosive. ... Contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. Aspirated form articulated as breathy ...

  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. Voiceless glottal fricative - Wikipedia

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    All consonants except for the glottals, and all vowels, have an individual place of articulation in addition to the state of the glottis. As with all other consonants, surrounding vowels influence the pronunciation [h], and [h] has sometimes been presented as a voiceless vowel, having the place of articulation of these surrounding vowels.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives - 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. There are three specific variants of [t] : Dental , which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the upper teeth , termed respectively apical and laminal .