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.