Sentence examples for consonant system from inspiring English sources
In most of these instances, Finnish has retained the consonants of the Proto-Uralic consonant system.
Clicks are a regular part of the consonant system in the Khoisan languages (sometimes called click languages) of such peoples as the Nama and !Xóõ.
Modern literary Russian is based on the Central dialect of Moscow, having basically the consonant system of the Northern dialect and the vowel system of the Southern dialect.
The Old Scandinavian consonant system contained voiceless stops p, t, k; voiced stops b, d, g; voiceless-voiced spirants f/v, þ/ð, x/ǥ; nasals m, n; a sibilant s; liquids l, r; and glides w, j.
The other shift (about the 6th century ad) was less radical in scope and affected the Germanic consonants, resulting in the consonant system evident in Old High German and its descendants, Middle High German and Modern High German (standard German).
The consonant system of Nafaanra is fairly similar to that of other Senufo languages.
To the click complexes must be added varying numbers of nonclick consonants resulting in some uniquely large and complicated consonant systems.
On the other hand, southern representatives of Nilotic have relatively simple consonant systems, as are common in neighbouring Bantu languages (which belong to the Niger-Congo language family).
Several Central Sudanic languages, most of which are situated along the southern fringe of the Nilo-Saharan zone, share the presence of complex consonant systems with neighbouring Adamawa-Ubangi (Niger-Congo) languages.
Thus, rich and complex consonant systems with universally rare distinctions such as voiceless ejective versus voiced implosive consonants are found, for example, in Koma, a Komuz language of western Ethiopia; comparable consonant distinctions occur in such Omotic (Afro-Asiatic) languages as Maale (southwestern Ethiopia).
This happened in the Germanic languages when the sound change known as Grimm's law affected all the stop consonants in the system.
