Noun:

मूक व्यंजन,

voiceless consonant's Usage Examples:

desonorisation of the /n/ to [d] after consonants (including /j/), and devoicing to [t] after voiceless consonants; e.

As for consonants, there is also a tendency to geminate all voiceless consonants after a short stressed vowel.

In some cases, a voiced consonant can be converted into the corresponding voiceless consonant.

kanas are composed like in romaji, by typing (without swiping) the voiceless consonant on the two last columns, then swiping the vowel on the first column.

In such languages, voiced obstruents become voiceless before voiceless consonants and in pausa.

In standard Russian, Ghe represents the voiced velar plosive /ɡ/ but is devoiced to [k] word-finally or before a voiceless consonant.

(The regular ending -ed is also devoiced after voiceless consonants in regular verbs, as described under , but this is not now shown in the spelling – for example, the -ed in blessed and whipped is pronounced as a t, and these words were formerly written blest and whipt.

fricative eða [ˈɛːða] (listen) "or" bað [paːð] (listen) "bath" before a voiceless consonant and before a pause: [θ̠] voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative.

The spelling -t following a voiceless consonant is retained for verbs that display an irregularity, as in kept and cost.

vowels, it is usually prononounced [d] except when it follows a voiceless consonant, when it becomes [t].

voiceless consonants followed by the aspiration modifier letter ⟨◌ʰ⟩, a superscript form of the symbol for the voiceless glottal fricative ⟨h⟩.

preceded by a voiceless consonant (ch, k, p, t) or end of a word, ⟨rz⟩ devoices to [ʂ], as in przed (help·info) ("before", [ˈpʂɛt]).

Synonyms:

surd, consonant,

Antonyms:

vowel, voiced, inconsistent,