_Sound : Cantonese is a guttural language, full of hard consonants.
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Another allophone, an open-mid occurs word-initially and between hard consonants.
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Preceding hard consonants retract to and so that ('gesture') and ('target') are pronounced and respectively.
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The following examples show some of the morphological alternations between a hard consonant and its soft counterpart:
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Between a hard consonant and, a slight offglide occurs, most noticeably after labial, labio-dental and velar consonants ( e . g .,'side').
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The distinction between hard and soft consonants is clear in Bulgarian orthography, where hard consonants are considered normal and precede either,,, or.
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On the other hand, the pronunciations of words such as ('hotel') retain the hard consonants despite a long presence in the language.
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All this is told in hyped-up prose, full of hard consonants and loving descriptions of the horses, cattle and other fauna of the state of Montana.
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It appears only after hard consonants, its phonetic value differs from, and there is some scholarly disagreement as to whether or not and denote different phonemes.
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As a result, in most unstressed positions, only three vowel phonemes are distinguished after hard consonants (,, and ), and only two after soft consonants ( and ).
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