fricative in the PONS Dictionary

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As a result, many stops have become fricatives and many fricatives have become glides or completely disappeared.
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The voiceless laterals are true fricatives, not voiceless approximants; the retroflex lateral is highly unusual among the world's languages.
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The voiced velar fricative occurs as a late variant of the emphatic voiced interdental.
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Consonant clusters are uncommon, aside from placing / / or / / before fricatives, which is frequent.
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Later, the palato-alveolar fricative x changed into the velar fricative, while ch stay unchanged.
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This phonation (often referred to as murmur) also occurs in zero onset syllables, syllables beginning with affricates and fricatives, and syllables beginning with sonorants.
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At the end of a syllable, can be pronounced either as a strong trill or, more frequently, as a weak fricative, which may vocalise to a nonsyllabic or disappear altogether.
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Although the voiced dental fricative is standard in the literary language, it is not found in the eastern dialects.
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The resonants can also become voiceless fricatives (as specified below).
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The physical hardware for constructing the nasals, plosives and fricatives that most consonants require was not present, however.
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