Consonant letter that doesn't correspond to a consonant sound
In orthography, a zero consonant, silent initial, or null-onset letter is a consonant letter that does not correspond to a consonant sound, but is required when a word or syllable starts with a vowel (i.e. has a null onset). Some abjads, abugidas, and alphabets have zero consonants, generally because they have an orthographic rule that all syllables must begin with a consonant letter, whereas the language they transcribe allows syllables to start with a vowel. In a few cases, such as Pahawh Hmong below, the lack of a consonant letter represents a specific consonant sound, so the lack of a consonant sound requires a distinct letter to disambiguate.
In orthography, a zeroconsonant, silent initial, or null-onset letter is a consonant letter that does not correspond to a consonant sound, but is required...
a vowel (V). For some languages, a zeroconsonant letter is used as though every syllable began with a consonant. For other languages, each vowel has...
point where the sign of a function crosses the zero axis 0 consonant, or Zeroconsonant, a consonant-like letter that is not pronounced C0 (disambiguation)...
have an empty or zero onset – that is, nothing where the onset would be. Some languages restrict onsets to be only a single consonant, while others allow...
Sanskrit. The zeroconsonant, อ, is unique to the Indic alphabets descended from Khmer. When it occurs in Sanskrit, it is always the zeroconsonant and never...
Scale of vowels Table of vowels Vowel coalescence Words without vowels Zeroconsonant According to Peter Ladefoged, traditional articulatory descriptions...
phonation of [p, t, ts, tʃ, k] with a voice onset time close to zero (a zero-VOT consonant), as Spanish p, t, ch, k or English p, t, k after s (spy, sty...
a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases. The occlusion...
dedicated letters for initial vowels, though some traditions use अ as a zeroconsonant as the graphic base for such vowels. The boundaries between the three...
schwa when appropriate. Sukun, a similar diacritic in Arabic script Zeroconsonant "คำศัพท์ การันต์ แปลว่าอะไร?". Longdo Dict. th:การันต์ "คำศัพท์ ทัณฑฆาต...
any final consonant.) Initial vowels do not have separate letters, but are written with the vowel diacritics on an &-shaped zero-consonant letter. There...
gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant. It is distinct...
phoneme twice, with double vowels distinguished by the presence of a "zeroconsonant" or empty onset between the vowels. Any pair of short vowels may occur...
Xiguan accent. Speakers of Xiguan Accents pronounce zeroconsonant (Chinese: 零聲母) as the consonant ng, for instance, "屋(uk7)" as "nguk7" and "壓(aat8)"...
abugida. Each of the twenty letters represents a syllable with a consonant (or a "zeroconsonant") and the inherent vowel 'a' that is pronounced as /ɔ/ in open...
vowel-initial words are indicated by an apostrophe, which thus acts as a zeroconsonant. RPA indicates tone by letters written at the end of a syllable, like...
§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. Postalveolar or post-alveolar consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar...
part of Huizhou fu, they may be closer to the Hailu dialect. Note: The zeroconsonant, like in 恁 (IPA: /an˧˩/), is not listed in the table above. According...
pronounced [ɔ]) implicitly represented in all base consonant letters (including the zero-consonant a). But unlike most other Brahmic scripts of India...
contextual letterforms. The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad, with only consonants required to be written; due to its optional use of diacritics to notate...
၊ -ံ ၊ -း and consonants are combined. The Mon alphabet contains 35 consonants (including a zeroconsonant), as follows, with consonants belonging to the...
⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Consonant gradation is a type of consonant mutation (mostly lenition but also assimilation) found...