consonante

Definitions of consonante
  1. noun
    a speech sound that is not a vowel
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    antonyms:
    vocale
    a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
    type of:
    fonema
    (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
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