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traditionally often pulled double duty for ⟨b⟩ and ⟨q⟩, ⟨d⟩ and ⟨p⟩, ⟨n⟩ and ⟨u⟩, ⟨6⟩ and ⟨9⟩ to reduce cost. Among consonant letters, the small capital letters...

of consonant clusters. The H-cluster reductions are various consonant reductions that have occurred in the history of English, involving consonant clusters...

the focus of theoretical linguists. One of the most important aspects of Irish phonology is that almost all consonants (except /h/) come in pairs, a "broad"...

concept of letter case. The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad, with only consonants required to be written; due to its optional use of diacritics to...

Biblical Hebrew had a typical Semitic consonant inventory, with pharyngeal /ʕ ħ/, a series of "emphatic" consonants (possibly ejective, but this is debated)...

le leathan" ("slender with slender and broad with broad") rule, i.e. that the vowels on either side of any consonant (or consonant cluster) must be both...

alphabet, with all vowels rendered in the spelling, except in the case of inherited Hebrew words, which typically retain their Hebrew consonant-only spellings...

Romance languages encompasses various historical sound changes which caused consonants to develop a palatal articulation or secondary articulation, as well as...

plosive before a sonorant consonant. In Manx, this applies to stressed monosyllabic words. The inserted consonant is homorganic with the following sonorant...

presents ... the principles of [English and Scots law] are sufficiently consonant with justice and common sense to admit of the claim which the appellant seeks...

vowels are notated using diacritic marks added to the consonants at all times, in contrast with other Semitic languages which indicate vowels based on...

letter pulled double duty for [nyu]); and [dy], which only has [dyu/dyo]. There are no glyphs assigned specifically to the consonant [gw] ~ [gb]. The result...

mya. Syllables beginning with w are indicated by dropping the vowel dots to the bottom of the cell without additional consonant dots. In Japanese Braille...

India; and estan after a consonant. Ex. گلستان golestan, and ترکستان torkestan. However, for poetic license, after a consonant also, it may be pronounced...

language family, along with modern Caddo, Pawnee, Arikara, and Kitsai. The phonology of Wichita is unusual, with no pure labial consonants (though there are...

dikaiosyne δικαιοσύνε: justice, "consonant with the law and instrumental to a sense of duty" (Diogenes Laertius 7.98). One of the four virtues (justice,...

disambiguate words with different meanings but otherwise the same spelling, or to indicate palatalisation of a preceding consonant (for example, while...

These included a number of vowel shifts, and the palatalisation of velar consonants in many positions. For historical developments prior to the Old English...

the High German consonant shift, which took place between 600 and 700 AD. After this consonant shift the Frankish dialect diverges, with the dialects which...

cognition and action, result in one of three relationships with reality: Consonant relationship: A cognition or action consistent with the other, e.g., not wanting...