According to the usual modern analysis, Early Middle Chinese had three phonemic tones in most syllables, but no tonal distinctions in checked syllables ending in the stop consonants / p /, / t /, / k /.
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0b�gkQ� 0 an entering tone character begins with an unvoiced consonant ( e . g . the initials ��0 V0Lk0KN0N?0Kj0GY ), these lose their stop consonant ending in colloquial reading and thus merge with either light departing or dark level tones.
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It is also in this period that Danish begins to take on the linguistic traits that differentiate it from Swedish and Norwegian, such as the st�d the voicing of many stop consonants, and the weakening of many final vowels to / e /.
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The primary characteristic of the Minjiang dialect is that the stop consonants for checked-tone syllables in Middle Chinese have developed into tense vowels to create a phonemic contrast, and in several cities and counties the tense vowels retain a following glottal stop.
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Enggano has historically undergone nasal harmony in its identifiable Austronesian vocabulary, where all stop consonants and vowels in a word became nasal after a nasal vowel, and oral after an oral vowel, so that there is no longer a phonemic distinction between them.
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This can be demonstrated by putting a few fingers on one's throat and pronouncing an open vowel such as the vowel [ a ], and then pronouncing one of the plosives ( also known as stop consonants ) of the [ p t k ] class.
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This means that all three Indo-European series of stop consonants ( aspirated, voiced and voiceless ) had already merged before these two consonants, so that for example the sequences, and, had already become and in certain late Proto-Indo-European dialects.
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In proto-Tai Kadai, there appear to have been three tones in words ending in a sonorant ( vowel or nasal consonant ), labeled simply A, B, C, plus words ending in a stop consonant, D, which did not have tone.
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Over the next few centuries, clarity was reached in the organization of sound units, and the stop consonants were organized in a 5x5 square ( c . 800 BCE, Pratisakhyas ), eventually leading to a systematic alphabet, Brhm + , by the 3rd century BCE.
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The active form of a multisyllabic verb with an initial stop consonant or fricative consonant is formed by prefixing the verb stem with " meN-", in which " N " stands for a nasal sharing the same place of articulation as the initial consonant.
