consonantal Definition
con·so·nan·tal (kän′sə nant′'l)
adjective
- having the nature or function of a consonant
- 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.
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