consonant

Summary

consonant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (622 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• consonant followed preconsonantal form^[2].
• consonant is a type of phone^[3].
• consonant is part of speech^[4].
• consonant's Commons category is recorded as Consonants^[5].
• consonant is the opposite of vowel^[6].
• consonant comprises noise^[7].
• consonant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Consonants^[8].
• consonant's facet of is recorded as language^[9].
• consonant's facet of is recorded as phonetics^[10].
• consonant's depicted by is recorded as consonant letter^[11].
• consonant's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[12].
• consonant's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/consonants^[13].
• consonant's has characteristic is recorded as disruption^[14].
• consonant's has characteristic is recorded as articulation^[15].
• consonant's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Consonant^[16].
• consonant's different from is recorded as consonant letter^[17].
• consonant's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[18].

Body

Definition and Type

consonant is a type of phone^[3]. consonant is the opposite of vowel^[6].

Use and Application

consonant comprises noise^[7]. consonant is part of speech^[4].

Why It Matters

consonant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (622 views/month).^[1] consonant has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[19] consonant is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[20]