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Keywords: hissing, consonant, ineze, sound, whistling

Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.

a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)

of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

a "hissing" or "s"-type sound like /z/,/j/,/ch/,/sh/,etc

A sound with a hissing or whistling quality, in Inezeño , , and .

Having the sound of the or the sh in sash.

A category of consonants which give the acoustic impression of hissing, such as [s], [z], etc..

Sibilants are consonants pronounced with a hissing sound (â€œsâ€).

The or sound in a word.

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Keywords: fricative, affricate, speeding, sharp, teeth

a type of fricative, made by speeding up air through a narrow channel and directing it over the sharp edge of the teeth

a type of fricative or affricate, made by directing a jet of air through a narrow channel towards the sharp edge of the teeth

Keywords: letter

A sibiliant letter.

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