voiceless consonant
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In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating. Phonologically, it is a type of phonation, which contrasts with other states of the larynx, but some object that the word phonation implies voicing and that voicelessness is the lack of phonation.
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It is catalogued under the topic Phonation.
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Key facts
- IPA.above
- Voiceless
- IPA.ipa symbol
- ◌̥
- IPA.ipa symbol2
- ◌̊
- IPA.decimal
- 805
- IPA.decimal2
- 778
- IPA.imagefile
- IPA Unicode 0x0325.svg
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- opposite of
- voiced consonant
- topic's main category
- Category:Voiceless consonants
- does not have characteristic
- vibration
- facet of
- vocal sound
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Voiceless vowels and other sonorants
- Lack of voicing contrast in obstruents
- References
- Further reading
In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating. Phonologically, it is a type of phonation, which contrasts with other states of the larynx, but some object that the word phonation implies voicing and that voicelessness is the lack of phonation.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) has distinct letters for many voiceless and modally voiced pairs of consonants (the obstruents), such as . Also, there are diacritics for voicelessness, and , which is used for letters with a descender. Diacritics are typically used with letters for prototypically voiced sounds, such as vowels and sonorant consonants: . In Russian use of the IPA, the voicing diacritic may be turned for voicelessness, e.g. .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “voiceless consonant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.