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§3. Classification of Sounds

Consonants are either voiced ( sonant ) or voiceless (surd). Voiced consonants are pronounced with the same vocal murmur that is heard in vowels; voiceless consonants lack this murmur.

  • The voiced consonants are b, d,g, l, r, m,n, z, consonant i, v.
  • The voiceless consonants are p, t,c (k, q), f, h, s, x.

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.