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The phrase "consonant language" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a linguistic context to refer to a language that has a high frequency of consonants or emphasizes consonant sounds.
Example: "The phonetic structure of the Slavic languages often makes them sound like a consonant language, with many clusters of consonants."
Alternatives: "consonant-heavy language" or "consonant-rich language."
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"Tippett's music is a collection of found objects bound together with a consonant language fading in and out of polytonality," Bernard Holland wrote in a New York Times review of the work's New York Philharmonic premiere in 1999.
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Although individual styles varied, all the works were in a consonant, accessible language, with only the rarest glimpses toward atonality or process-driven Minimalism.
They make a smooth virtue out of the consonant-heavy language, helped by some catchy beats and slipping into English only for their between-song crowd interactions ("Make some noise!" etc).
And even the consonant-crazy language that confused me on the daily.
And according to the syllable dictionary of Hoang Phe [42], we split a morphosyllable into two basic parts, consonants and syllables, as follows: Consonants: The Vietnamese language has 27 consonants, i.e., "b," "ch," "c," "d," "đ," "gi," "gh," "g," "h," ''kh," ''k," "l," "m," "ngh," "ng," "nh," "n," "ph," "q," "r," "s," "th," "tr," "t," "v," "x," "p".
"Seventy percent of the English language is consonants and consonant sounds," he said.
In all click languages, clicks form only a portion though sometimes the main portion of the total number of consonants of the language.
The rolling Clwydian Hills present a serene landscape of sheep pastures, signposts in the consonant-thick Welsh language and hamlets of stone cottages with smoke curling idly from chimney tops.
Taken together, these ecological variables accounted for about one-fourth of the variation in how "consonant-heavy" a language is, Maddieson says.
In terms of the non-tonal (i.e. phonemic) features, the nucleus vowel is the only required part of a licit consonant in Chinese languages.
However, a decline in cross-language consonant perception occurs at 10 12 months.
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