Definition of CONSONANTS. Meaning of CONSONANTS. Synonyms of CONSONANTS

- foot. The other problematic area is that of syllabic consonants, segments articulated as consonants but occupying the nucleus of a syllable. This may be...
- and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream...
- phonemic velar consonants. Several Khoisan languages have limited numbers or distributions of pulmonic velar consonants. (Their click consonants are articulated...
- Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants. Uvulars...
- the term radical consonant may be used as a cover term, or the term guttural consonants may be used instead. Pharyngeal consonants can trigger effects...
- Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation. Many phoneticians consider them, or at least the glottal fricative...
- § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar...
- Interdental consonants are produced by placing the tip of the tongue between the upper and lower front teeth. That differs from typical dental consonants, which...
- delimiters. In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips. Bilabial consonants are very common across languages. Only...
- referred to as cerebral consonants—especially in Indology. The Latin-derived word retroflex means "bent back"; some retroflex consonants are pronounced with...