consonantal
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- adjective
- /ˌkɒnsəˈnætl/
- Specialized
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consonántico
- But here we find that the nasal quality of the intervocalic -n-, which had lost its independent consonantal status, spread onto the following vowel, a development typical of Galician (Maia 575-76, 751 fn. 2).
Examples
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The Hebrew consonantal phrase ? ? ? ? ? ? appears nine times in the Bible, six of which are in Genesis One.
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Ancient Semitic scripts were consonantal (though "weak" consonants like 'w' and 'y' could, in effect, mark vowels), and divisions between words were usually indicated.
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One background can be, in the case of alphabetic or consonantal scripts or syllabaries, long-term changes occurring in the way in which a language is spoken.
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In summary: The breadth of the Ibero-Romance family of Greco-Latin SYRINGA is not immediately apparent, due to a combination of sometimes extreme semantic divergence and unusual consonantal development.
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But this consonantal notation, however well-adapted to the languages for which it was introduced, was not well-adapted to render Greek (even though a syllabary was in fact used in the Linear B tablets, contributing to the difficulties of decipherment).
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The Hebrew language is written using a consonantal script, where vowels are often not explicitly noted.
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Many ancient writing systems are consonantal, which means they primarily represent consonant sounds.
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In studying linguistics, we learn that consonantal sounds play a crucial role in the formation of syllables.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
The set of consonant sounds a language uses and how they are arranged
How Vowel-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Consonantal comes from Latin parts con- meaning 'with' and sonare meaning 'to sound'. Because the word consonant literally points to a sound made 'with' a touch or blocking in the mouth, consonantal describes sounds or letters that have the qualities of those consonants.