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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 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Voiceless alveolar affricate - Wikipedia

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    A voiceless alveolar affricate is a type of affricate consonant pronounced with the tip ... Entity (decimal) ʦ ... in free variation with a strongly aspirated ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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 .

  8. Alveolar click - Wikipedia

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    The alveolar or postalveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia. The tongue is more or less concave (depending on the language), and is pulled down rather than back as in the palatal clicks , making a hollower sound than those consonants.

  9. Voiceless palatal fricative - Wikipedia

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    Common allophony of /j/ after aspirated consonants. Normally transcribed as [pʰj]. See Standard Chinese phonology: English: Australian [example needed] Allophone of /j/. See Australian English phonology [30] [31] New Zealand [example needed] Allophone of /j/, also can be [ç] instead. See New Zealand English phonology [32] [31] French