Types of English consonants.

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angel-girl1

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Hi,

According to

www dot bbc dot co dot uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/

the conconants are divided into three types: voiced consonants, voiceless consonants and other consonants.

If we follow this division, then the other consonants are neither voiced nor voiceless.

Please, correct me?
 

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The chart is a little confusing. All of the 'other' consonants except /h/ are voiced, and have no unvoiced equivalent. /h/ has no voiced equivalent/.

Those illustrated as 'voiced' and 'unvoiced' are pairs - for example, /p/ is the voiced, fortis equivalent of unvoiced /b/.
 

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Thanks. It helped
 
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