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  2. Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives - Wikipedia

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    The [t] sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically. [1] Most languages have at least a plain [t], and some distinguish more than one variety. Some languages without a [t] are colloquial Samoan (which also lacks an [n]), Abau, and Nǁng of South Africa. [citation needed]

  3. Silent e - Wikipedia

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    It altereth the sound of all the vowells, euen quite thorough one or mo consonants as, máde, stéme, éche, kínde, strípe, óre, cúre, tóste sound sharp with the qualifying E in their end: whereas, màd, stèm, èch, frind, strip, or, cut, tost, contract of tossed sound flat without the same E, And therefor the same loud and sharp sound in ...

  4. Voiceless dental fricative - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.It is familiar to most English speakers as the 'th' in think.Though rather rare as a phoneme among the world's languages, it is encountered in some of the most widespread and influential ones.

  5. Plosive - Wikipedia

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    Only the hold phase is requisite. A plosive may lack an approach when it is preceded by a consonant that involves an occlusion at the same place of articulation, as in [d] in end or old. In many languages, such as Malay and Vietnamese, word-final plosives lack a release burst, even when followed by a vowel, or have a nasal release.

  6. Final-obstruent devoicing - Wikipedia

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    However, the German phenomenon is similar to the final devoicing in other languages in that the opposition between two different kinds of obstruents disappears at the ends of words, and in fact at the ends of all syllables, [11] making homophones of such pairs as Rad ("wheel") and Rat ("council, counsel"), both pronounced [ʁaːt]. The German ...

  7. Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is t͡ɬ (often simplified to tɬ ), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is ƛ (barred lambda).

  8. Elision - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.However, these terms are also used to refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run together by the omission of a final sound. [1]

  9. Epenthesis - Wikipedia

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    Infixation: the insertion of a morpheme within a word; Metathesis: the reordering of sounds within a word; Paragoge: the addition of a sound to the end of a word; Prothesis: the addition of a sound to the beginning of a word; Tmesis: the inclusion of a whole word within another one