The phrase "consonant without" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a word or phrase that does not contain any consonant sounds. Example: "The word 'eye' is a vowel without any consonants."
As noted above, a consonant symbol designates by default a consonant followed by a; an angled substroke is used to indicate that a consonant symbol stands for a consonant without any vowel.
Cerha had the avant-garde street-cred early on to get to write music that is consonant without being looked at as a musical lightweight (see also: Ionarts-at-Large: Cerha, Lush Romantic at Work).
Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically called virama, but the Tamil script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses a visible puḷḷi to indicate a dead consonant (a consonant without a vowel).
In Classical Sumerian, the contrast between the consonants b, d, g, z and p, t, k, s was not between voiced (with vibrating vocal cords) and voiceless consonants (without vibrating vocal cords) but between consonants that were indifferent as to voice and those that were aspirated (pronounced with an accompanying audible puff of breath).
Thus, there are five different signs for ta, te, ti, to, tu, but there is no sign for the consonant t without a following vowel.
Alter's more academic and literary commission allows him to luxuriate in the forked possibilities of the Hebrew text, in its oldest forms written entirely in consonants, and without punctuation.
Consonance occurs where a consonant sound is repeated throughout a sentence without putting the sound only at the front of a word.
When the electroacoustic characteristics were set identical for both hearing aids, the speech discrimination scores for the HD-10 without the consonant stressing function were the same as those for the analogue hearing aids in 12 cases.
Linear B's 90 syllabic signs express open syllables (i.e., syllables ending in a vowel), generally beginning without a consonant or with only one consonant; because of this, the script is unable to represent groups of consonants or final consonants clearly.
Syllables without a consonant (vocalic syllables) are more common in Rapanui than syllables beginning with any of the ten consonants.
Some morphemes have two alternating forms, one with a vowel i to prevent consonant clusters, and one without.
