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the speech sound that survives even when you delete every vowel — see: ths sntnc
means A speech sound made by blocking or constricting the breath somewhere in the mouth — every letter that isn't a vowel.
from From Latin consonans, 'sounding together,' from con- ('with') plus sonare ('to sound') — a cousin of sonic, sonata, and resonate. The idea baked into the name is that these sounds couldn't stand alone but had to 'sound with' a vowel to be pronounced, leaning on it the way a climber leans on a rope. Latin grammarians took the term straight from the Greek symphonon, the 'sounding-together' letters, in contrast to the phonienta, the vowels that could sound by themselves.
- hebrew script
- Originally written with almost no vowels at all
- texting
- Vowel-dropping shrinks words and survives perfectly
- english count
- 21 letters, but dozens of actual sounds
- airflow
- Made by blocking or squeezing the breath
- clusters
- Georgian word gvprtskvni stacks eight in a row
the letter k — 21st letter of the english alphabet, represents a stop consonant sound
the letter s — 19th letter of the english alphabet, represents a fricative consonant sound
the letter t — 20th letter of the english alphabet, represents a stop consonant sound