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Sonant   Listen
adjective
Sonant  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
2.
(Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; vocal; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; said of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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