Karlgren assumed that voiced consonants were actually breathy voiced.

There are maybe a dozen words with optionally voiced initial consonants, such as babe pape (a sp.

The table below gives the consonant set of Permian, grouping voiceless and voiced consonants together in a cell where appropriate, in that order.

In Middle Chinese, initial plosives and affricates showed a three-way contrast between tenuis, voiceless aspirated and voiced consonants.

A periodic sound source is vocal fold vibration produced at the glottis found in vowels and voiced consonants.

Tone is most frequently manifested on vowels, but in most tonal languages where voiced syllabic consonants occur they will bear tone as well.

There is the usual set of ejective consonants as well as plain voiceless and voiced consonants.

For many speakers, Canadian raising is not stopped just by any voiced consonants; rather, only voiced consonants that come right before a morpheme boundary stop it.

Thus, some more recent versions of the Glottalic Theory hypothesis do not have voiced consonants at all, or treat voicing as non-distinctive.

Since the Meitei language does not have voiced consonants, there are only fifteen consonant letters used for native words, plus three letters for pure vowels.