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This may be aspirated, affricated, or evenejective.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The homorganic and heterorganic affricatedejectiveclicks do not contrast in any known language, but are judged dissimilar enough to keep separate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They may be oral occlusives, nasals, affricates, orejective.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sesotho makes a three-way distinction between lightlyejective, aspirated and voiced stops in several places of articulation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the aspirated andejectivelaterals are true fricatives.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Xhosa has one implosive stop, fourejectivestops and fiveejectiveaffricates.
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All its members are either voiced, aspirated orejective.
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Data are also given to show that a glottal stop may appear adjacent to a stop, whetherejectiveor not.
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The other two show equally strong positive associations between laryngealised sounds and glottal stops, and betweenejectivesounds and glottal stops.
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While there is of course no requirement that every word have anejective, the complementarity between ejectives and vowel-finality is striking.
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Vogt 1958 : 49), rather than plain, voiced andejectivestops.
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But if ejection enhances place perception, then there should be no problem per se with a word-final or preconsonantalejective.
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It appears that it is useful primarily for phonology, where universals such as ' if a language hasejectivestops, it has plain stops ' make meaningful claims.
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Klamath contrasts plain, aspirated andejectivestops and sonorants, with an interesting timing difference in word-initial onsets.
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The preglottalized stops are truly preglottalized, notejectiveor creaky voiced.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They also distinguish voiceless, voiced, andejectiveaffricates at each of these.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ejectivefricatives are quite rare cross-linguistically, and when a language has such sounds, it nearly always has.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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- best-efforts
- best endeavours
- best-endeavours
- bestest
- best estimate
- best finish
- best friend
- best-friend
- best guarantee
- best guess
- best-happiest-days-of-life
- best hope
- bestial
- bestiality
- bestiary
- bestie
- best-if-used-by-date
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- best in class
- best-in-class
- best indicator
- besting
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