consonantal

How To Use consonantal In A Sentence

• Hebrew is considered the Holy Language par excellence, but it is interesting to note that although the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible must be reproduced according to precise orthographic rules for ritual purposes, the Jewish tradition permits translations of the text into other languages. David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization
• He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
• As the young woman rattled on she grew more and more glib; she was what they call whopper-jawed, and spoke a language almost purely consonantal, cutting and clipping her words with a rapid play of her whopper-jaw till there was nothing but the bare bones left of them. The Minister's Charge
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• The efficiency of our fluency training could be enormously improved if the achieved fluency gains would generalize to new words sharing consonantal onsets with the training words.
• A word or group of words difficult to articulate rapidly, usually because of a succession of similar consonantal sounds, as in Shall she sell seashells?
• She goes on to note that both English and Chinese make use of aspiration in their consonantal systems.
• In a justifiable move for consistency and accuracy, consonantal and vocalic forms of i and u are not distinguished (Lewis and Short distinguished i from j, u from v), except for use of V for capital u, with capitalized entries interfiled (Vaticanus between vatia and vaticinatio). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
• These may all imply less familiar consonantal clusters, final sounds, etc so you have the plasticity of the mouth coming into play too. E is for Error « An A-Z of ELT
• The source of the symbolism was pure word-play since in Egyptian, the word for 'to become' was *ḫāpar Sahidic ϣⲱⲡⲉ while the symbol for 'beetle' contained the same consonantal skeleton, ḫpr, but presumably with different vowels. The scarab rises in Etruria