Questions tagged [voicing]
a property of speech sounds that arises by vibration of the vocal folds. For example, the "s" sound in English "zoom" is voiced, but the "s" in "sea" is voiceless.
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Are there Tai languages (or Tai-Kadai) which have a voiced velar stop phoneme?
Thai and Lao each have three series of stops, unvoiced unaspirated, aspirated, and voiced.
For labials and alveolars, all three exist, but for velars there is no voiced stop.
Is this the case for ...
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What is the nature of the (voiceless) aspirated "m" in Hmong?
Hmong is a dialect continuum spoken across several countries in Southeast Asia.
One prominent characteristic is the "aspirated m" (IPA m̥ or mʰ) found in some varieties. This is the reason behind the ...
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