Combined consonants came from the influence of Greek letters: 'CH' from the Greek chi makes a 'k' sound and never 'ch' like in church.
By combining stop consonants with different vowels at a phonological level, syllables are created that have different meanings.
There are some difficult sounds in Sesotho, like the "Q" and "X" sounds, as well as sounds made by combining two or more consonants.
(The flavour stimulus, MSGV, was the taste 0.1 M MSG+0.005 M IMP combined with a consonant 0.4% vegetable odour). (b) The timecourse of the blood oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) signals for the two conditions.
The vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound characters, giving a total of 247 characters (12 + 18 + 1 + (12 x 18)).
By combining articulation-disordered vowels and well-ordered consonants, we constructed an individuality-preserving dictionary.
By combining a source speaker's vowels and target speaker's consonants in the target dictionary, the individuality of the source speaker's voice can be preserved.
In the onset, these consonants can combine to form tautosyllabic clusters or sequisyllabic structures.
The constraints allow just six of the 21 consonants to combine with [j], as in 变 [pjan] 'change', 骗 [pʰjan] 'cheat', 面 [mjan] 'face', 电 [tjan] 'electricity', 天 [tʰjan] 'sky', and 链 [njan] 'chain', respectively.
Thus, a stop consonant like/b/versus/p/can be combined with a vowel like/a/or/o/to create a richer signaling unit than either class (that is, stop consonants or vowel) alone could provide.
