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Alif, the eighth consonant of the Thaana abugaida used in Dhivehi
Of the languages without click consonants, Archi has one of the largest consonant inventories, with the recently extinct Ubykh of the Northwest Caucasian languages having a few more.
Retroflex consonant, also referred to as a cerebral consonant, a type of consonant sound used in some languages
Among these offenses, according to Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip was "revealing the mysterious consonant by which the Chief of the Secret Service is known."
The philosophical Ithkuil language features a complex mutation pattern, with every root consonant having eight possible mutations of its base form.
Coronal consonant, a consonant that is articulated with the front part of the tongue
The final sanctuary was obliterated in a fierce fire; the blackened remains of an Egyptian jar bearing the cartouche of Queen Twosret gives a terminus post quem of ca 1200 BCE, a date consonant with other twelfth-century urban destruction in the Ancient Near East.
Dhaalu, the 12th consonant of the Thaana abugaida used in Dhivehi.
Dorsal consonant, a consonant articulated with the back of the tongue
Faafu, the 11th consonant of the Thaana abugaida used in Dhivehi.
The latter initial root consonant occurs once in the Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts, more often in 21st Dynasty mythological papyri as well as in a text from the Ptolemaic tomb of Petosiris at Tuna el-Gebel or was written with initial hard -k-, as e.g. in a 30th Dynasty papyrus text in the Brooklyn Museum dealing with descriptions of and remedies against snakes.
In a letter to Cipriano de Rore dated from around 1563, Benedetti proposed a new theory of the cause of consonance, arguing that since sound consists of air waves or vibrations, in the more consonant intervals the shorter, more frequent waves concurred with the longer, more frequent waves at regular intervals.
Gnaviyani ( ޏ ), the 16th consonant of the Thaana alphabet used in Dhivehi.
Vowels are usually grouped together with a consonant, but two following vowels must be separated by a helper construct.
Thaana, the seventh consonant of the Thaana abugaida used in Dhivehi.
He has published on such topics as echo words in Bhojpuri and has argued that echo-word constructions (in which "a word is repeated without its initial consonant, sometimes with a vowel change") can function as a kind of secret language.
This is the list of the Khowar letters created by Rehmat Aziz Chitrali, giving the consonant pronunciation.
In the late Middle Ages, it was common for Hungarian noble families with names derived in a similar way from a toponym to spell their names with "y" at the end instead of "i", and/or with a doubled consonant before it.
Laamu, the 14th consonant of the Thaana abugaida used in Dhivehi.
2nd declension two-syllable male names never undergo consonant shift (Uldis, Artis, Gatis, and so forth.) Besides body parts (acs, auss) there is a number of other words that historically do not undergo consonant shift, e.g., the name of the town of Cēsis.
Lhaviyani, the sixth consonant of the Thaana abugaida used in Dhivehi.
The divine name Yah has a mappiq (a dot inside the last letter), so the last letter shall not be read as a vowel a, but as the consonant H - and therefore Yah (and not Ya).
Meemu, the tenth consonant of the Thaana abugaida used in Dhivehi.
This letter does not appear on Thaana tables printed after the 1950s and should not be confused with letter Gnaviyani or Nyaviyani, the 16th consonant of the present-day Maldivian alphabet, after which an administrative atoll was named.
According to Lawrence Kushner, author of The Book of Letters: A Mystical Alef-Bait, Sefer HaTemunah teaches that "every defect in our present universe is mysteriously connected with this unimaginable consonant", and that as soon as the missing letter is given to us, our Universe will be filled with undreamed of new words, the words that will turn repression into loving.
Shaviyani, the second consonant of the Thaana abugaida used in Dhivehi.
Some systems, such as Mac OS X's Kotoeri and the Microsoft IME, automatically generate a sokuon if an applicable consonant letter is typed twice; for example tta generates った.
Because Dania, the phonetic alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet designed specifically for Danish, uses the IPA character for a glottal stop to transcribe stød, the feature is frequently mistaken to be a consonant rather than a prosodic feature.
Abugida, a writing system in which consonant graphemes are inherently associated with a default vowel
At the time of its composition, Heaney saw themes of the Philoctetes as consonant with the contemporary political situation in South Africa, as the apartheid regime fell and Nelson Mandela was released from prison without a full-scale war.
However, for the purposes of determining whether a syllable is open or closed, these single consonants continue to act as consonant clusters.
Ubykh has been cited in the Guinness Book of Records (1996 ed.) as the language with the most consonant phonemes, although it may have fewer than some of the Khoisan languages.
Unreleased stop, in phonetics, a plosive consonant without an audible release burst
Vaavu, the ninth consonant of the Thaana abugaida used in Dhivehi.
including a letter representing the historical Russian double consonant /ʃt͡ʃ/ (corresponding to Cyrillic Щ).
In this case, if Keech could add consonant elements by converting others to the basic premise, then the magnitude of her dissonance following disconfirmation would be reduced.