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apical consonant

phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue. It contrasts with laminal consonants, which are produced by creating an obstruction with the blade of the tongue, just behind the tip
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apical consonant

Summary

apical consonant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (103 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • apical consonant's subclass of is recorded as coronal consonant[2].
  • apical consonant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04jvj3[3].
  • apical consonant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Apical consonants[4].
  • apical consonant's different from is recorded as laminal consonant[5].
  • apical consonant's uses is recorded as tongue[6].
  • apical consonant's Store medisinske leksikon ID is recorded as apikal[7].
  • apical consonant's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780245921[8].
  • apical consonant's related image is recorded as Apical, laminal and apicolaminal articulations.svg[9].

Why It Matters

apical consonant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (103 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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