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consonantal Definition

con·so·nan·tal (kän′sə nant′'l)

adjective

  1. having the nature or function of a consonant
  2. of or having a consonant or consonants

consonantal Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • text: He did to the vocalized reading of the Qur'an what Uthman had done to the consonantal text.
  • sound: It consists of 42 characters, 24 representing consonantal sounds and 18 representing vowel sounds.
  • root: The outstanding feature of ER demonstratives is their renewed composition: new consonantal roots are preposed to the older demonstratives.
  • form: Most Arabic books to this day are written in consonantal form only.
  • lenition: The introduction of consonantal lenition into Liverpool English ' Presented at the Autumn meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, UMIST.
  • skeleton: The hieroglyphic script represented only the consonantal skeleton of the words.