| 1. | They were originally aspirated consonants used in Sanskrit and Kawi transliterations.
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| 2. | Aspirated consonants are not always followed by vowels or other voiced sounds.
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| 3. | Shanghainese are slack voice; they contrast with tenuis and aspirated consonants.
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| 4. | However, this effect is effectively blocked by an intervening aspirated consonant.
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| 5. | Intervocalically the aspirated consonants become pre-aspirated unless followed by a closed vowel.
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| 6. | Aspirated consonants are sometimes used in the Brahmin dialect, but are not phonemic.
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| 7. | An unmarked " h " is used to form digraphs denoting aspirated consonants.
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| 8. | If two aspirated consonants are brought together in one stem, the first loses its aspiration.
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| 9. | Aspirated consonants are preaspirated in medial and word-final contexts, devoicing preceding consonants and vowels.
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| 10. | The aspirated consonants are sometimes classified as separate letters, although it takes two characters to represent them.
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