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emphatic consonant

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series of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages, which originally contrasted with series of both voiced and voiceless obstruents; may be realized as uvularized or pharyngealized, velarized, ejective, or plain voiced or voiceless

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Within Vinony's link graph, emphatic consonant is referenced by 126 other articles, and connects out to tsade, voiceless alveolar stop and Modern Hebrew.

It sits within the topics Phonetics, Phonology and Semitic linguistics.

Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.

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Semitic
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