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languages is marginally greater than the number of consonant letters in any one alphabet... has fewer consonant letters than English has consonant sounds... s original conception of consonant is inadequate for the universal description of... and the modern conception of consonant does not require cooccurrence with vowels... Consonant letters in the English alphabet are... W is almost always a consonant except in rare words... where C stands for consonant and V stands for vowel... the distinction between consonant and vowel is not always clear cut... Each spoken consonant can be distinguished by several phonetic... of a consonant is how the... have a consonant that is very similar... but it actually has a consonant that varies between... in other dialects of Hawaiian it has a consonant which varies between...

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