(in ‘articulatory phonetics’, a consonant is a ‘speech sound’ that is ‘articulated’ with ‘complete’ or ‘partial’ closure of the ‘vocal tract’)
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[p]
(pronounced with the ‘lips’)
[t]
(pronounced with the ‘front of the ‘tongue’)
[k]
(pronounced with the ‘back of the ‘tongue’)
[h]
(pronounced in the ‘throat’)
[f] + [s]
(pronounced by ‘forcing air through a narrow channel’)
(aka ‘fricatives’)
(“via africa!”)
(viva las vegas!)
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and [m] and [n], which have air flowing through the ‘nose’ (‘nasals’))
(contrasting with ‘consonants’ are ‘vowels’)
(since the number of possible sounds in all of the world’s languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the ‘International Phonetic Alphabet’ (IPA) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant)
(in fact, the ‘english alphabet’ has fewer consonant letters than English has consonant sounds, so digraphs like “ch”, “sh”, “th”, and “zh” are used to extend the alphabet, and some letters and digraphs represent more than one consonant)
(for example, the sound spelled “th” in “this” is a different consonant than the “th” sound in “thin”)
(iIn the IPA, they are transcribed [Γ°]and [ΞΈ], respectively)
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