| 1. | In common with Standard Italian, it strongly distinguishes voiceless from voiced consonants.
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| 2. | Like Sindhi, Siraiki retains breathy-voiced consonants, has developed implosives, and lacks tone.
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| 3. | Is pronounced when followed by and when preceded by a voiced consonant.
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| 4. | There is no voiced consonant with an unvoiced counterpart, nor vice versa.
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| 5. | Voiced consonants tend to lower the onset of pitch in high tones.
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| 6. | Plosive and affricate phonemes have three-way contrast between fortis, lenis, and voiced consonants.
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| 7. | Between vowels or voiced consonants, they are voiced, sounding like modern and, respectively.
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| 8. | The aspirate series was removed, but the breathy voiced consonants remained.
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| 9. | The voiced consonants,,,,, never occur at the end of a word.
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| 10. | Modern Greek consonants are plain ( voiceless unaspirated ) voiced consonants, or voiceless fricatives.
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