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Definition of Consonantal system
1. Noun. The system of consonants used in a particular language.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consonantal System
Literary usage of Consonantal system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Philology: Its Discoveries, History, and Influence by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1864)
"THE SANSKRIT consonantal system. In Sanskrit, the consonants are arranged according
... It is designed to be a complete view of the true consonantal system, ..."
2. Grammar of the Sindhi Language: Compared with the Sanskrit-Prakrit and the by Ernest Trumpp (1872)
"... consonantal system.1) We subjoin here the common alphabetical order of the
... consonantal system ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Low German, to begin with, has retained the phonetic structure of ite consonantal
system unaltered, except by the loss of the th sound. ..."
4. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"In addition to the distributional restrictions on /f/, the consonant was weakly
integrated into the consonantal system. It was the only labial fricative and ..."
5. Lectures on the Science of Language by Friedrich Max Müller (1873)
"And if on these grounds I feel convinced that the consonantal system in High-German
had become settled long before the seventh century,,I feel ..."
6. The Science of Language: Linguistics, Philology, Etymology by Abel Hovelacque (1877)
"The common Aryan consonantal system was extremely simple, consisting of the three
explosives A', t, p, of their corresponding softs (/, d, J>, ..."
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