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In linguistics, a tenuis consonant (/ ˈ t ɛ n. j uː ɪ s / ⓘ or / ˈ t ɛ n uː ɪ s /) [2] is an obstruent that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized. In other words, it has the "plain" phonation of [p, t, ts, tʃ, k] with a voice onset time close to zero (a zero-VOT consonant), as Spanish p, t, ch, k or English p, t, k after s ( s ...
êm is used in Portuguese for /ɐĩ̯ ~ ẽĩ̯/ at the end of a word and /ẽ/ before a consonant. en is used in Portuguese for /ɐĩ̯ ~ ẽĩ̯/ at the end of a word followed or not by an /s/ as in hífen or hifens; and for /ẽ/ before a consonant within a word. In French, it represents /ɑ̃/ or /ɛ̃/.
A tenuis consonant is an obstruent that is unvoiced, unaspirated, unpalatalized, and unglottalized. Pages in category "Tenuis consonants" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
As noted above, tenuis stops and /h/ are voiced after the voiced consonants /m, n, ŋ, l/, and the resulting voiced [ɦ] tends to be elided. Tenuis stops become fortis after obstruents (which, as noted above, are reduced to [k̚, t̚, p̚]); that is, /kt/ is pronounced [k̚t͈].
Consonants at the beginning of the syllable are the syllable onset, the vowel in the middle is a nucleus, and the consonant at the end is a coda. In dividing words into syllables, each vowel or diphthong belongs to one syllable. A consonant between vowels goes with the following vowel. [44]
The voiceless or more precisely tenuis dental click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ǀ .
Tenuis, weak or slender in Latin, and a species in zoology, may refer to: Language. Tenuis consonant, an obstruent (stop, affricate or rarely fricative) that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized. Zoology. Acropora tenuis is a species of acroporid coral found in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden. Anatoma tenuis, a species of minute sea snail.
The last is what is heard in the sound sample at right, as non-native speakers tend to glottalize clicks to avoid nasalizing them. In the orthographies of individual languages, the letters and digraphs for dental clicks may be based on either the vertical bar symbol of the IPA, ǀ , or on the Latin c of Bantu convention.