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In the grammatical tradition of Sanskrit, aspirated consonants are called voiceless aspirated, and breathy-voiced consonants are called voiced aspirated . There are no dedicated IPA symbols for degrees of aspiration and typically only two degrees are marked: unaspirated k and aspirated kʰ .
- Voiceless glottal fricative
The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless...
- English phonology
Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in...
- Breathy voice
In the context of the Indo-Aryan languages like Sanskrit and...
- Allophone
Approximants (in English, these include /w, r, j, l/) are...
- Voiceless glottal fricative
aspirate, the sound h as in English “hat.”. Consonant sounds such as the English voiceless stops p, t, and k at the beginning of words ( e.g., “pat,” “top,” “keel”) are also aspirated because they are pronounced with an accompanying forceful expulsion of air.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aspirated consonant. In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath. In dialects with aspiration, to feel or see the difference between aspirated and unaspirated sounds, one can put a hand or a lit candle in front of one's mouth, and say spin [spɪn] and then pin [pʰɪn].
