Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p In linguistics, a tenuis consonant /ˈtɛnjuː.ɪs/ is an obstruent that is unvoiced, unaspirated, unpalatalized, and unglottalized. That is, it has the "plain" phonation of [p, t, ts, tʃ, k], with a voice onset time close to zero, as in Spanish p, t, ch, k, or as in English p, t, k after s (spy, sty, sky).For most languages, the distinction is only relevant for stops and affricates. However, a few languages have analogous series in the fricatives; Mazahua, for example, has the ejective, aspirated, and voiced fricatives /sʼ sʰ z/ alongside tenuis /s/, parallel to the stops /ɗ tʼ tʰ d/ alongside tenuis /t/.. }
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- Tenuis_consonant abstract "In linguistics, a tenuis consonant /ˈtɛnjuː.ɪs/ is an obstruent that is unvoiced, unaspirated, unpalatalized, and unglottalized. That is, it has the "plain" phonation of [p, t, ts, tʃ, k], with a voice onset time close to zero, as in Spanish p, t, ch, k, or as in English p, t, k after s (spy, sty, sky).For most languages, the distinction is only relevant for stops and affricates. However, a few languages have analogous series in the fricatives; Mazahua, for example, has the ejective, aspirated, and voiced fricatives /sʼ sʰ z/ alongside tenuis /s/, parallel to the stops /ɗ tʼ tʰ d/ alongside tenuis /t/.".