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| | Consonant - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The word consonant comes from Latin meaning "sounding with" or "sounding together", the idea being that consonants don't sound on their own, but only occur with a nearby vowel, which is the case in Latin. |
 | | Consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Z, and sometimes Y — the letter Y stands for the consonant [j] in "yoke" but for the vowel [ɪ] in "myth", for example. |
 | | This feature is not distinctive in English, but various languages such as Italian, Japanese and Finnish have two lenght levels, "short consonants" and "geminates". |
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