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Technical Term
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Voiceless Consonant
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Voiced Consonant
plain
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breathy
(aspirated con-
sonants not used in English)
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* "ph" is pronounced
as "f" in modern languages (e.g., philosophy, philsophie, filosofia);
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but "ph" comes from ancient Greek 
(phi) |
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which was pronounced with a puff
of breath like our English "p" in "pin" |
Other frequent sounds:
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l & r
m & n
s & z (voiced)
f, v (voiced)
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liquids ('flowing')
nasals ('of the nose')
sibilants ('hissing')
fricative ('rubbing')
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"grok" if you recall is a perfectly regular noun in
phonetic form though meaning nothing in ordinary English.
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