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Difference between voiced and voiceless consonants

What makes a voiced consonants different from the voiceless consonants? give example?

What makes a voiced consonants different from the voiceless consonants? give example?

Answer: That is the vibration of the vocal cords.(they can be brought together. When the air-stream is forced between them, they vibrate and produce voice. When they are apart, the airflow passages between them freely they don’t vibrate and produce no sound.

– Voiceless: vocal cords are not vibrated. Examples: /p/, /f/, /s/, /∫/, /θ/, /t∫/, /k/, /h/,..

– Voiced: vocal cords are vibrated. Examples: /v/, /b/, /d/, /z/, /dδ/, /g/, /l/, /r/, /m/,..