Tenuis consonant

• abstract: In linguistics, a tenuis consonant is a plosive or affricate consonant which is unvoiced, unaspirated, and unglottalized. That is, it has a "plain" phonation like , with a voice onset time close to zero, as in Spanish p, t, ch, k, or as in English p, t, k after s (spy, sty, sky).

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