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plosive consonant

consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases
Class type of: consonant, occlusive consonant Q51597

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
manner of articulation
Subclass of
consonant, occlusive consonant[2][3]
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[5]
Has characteristic
disruption[6]
Said to be the same as
occlusive consonant[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en stop consonant en oral occlusive en oral stop en plosive consonant en stop en plosive ar صامت انفجاري cs plozivní souhláska da klusil da lukkelyd de Plosiv de Explosivlaut de Plosivlaut de Explosiv de Verschlusslaut el κλειστά σύμφωνα es consonante oclusiva es consonante explosiva es consonante plosiva es consonante oclusiva oral
🔖 Identifiers · 17
OpenAlex ID
C2776893716
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Linguolabial stop.png ↗
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/13540
BabelNet ID
00058556n
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
E0059582
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/stop-speech-sound
Freebase ID
/m/0gtvy93
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
oclusiva
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0197284
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
plosiv_-_språkvitenskap
ISOCAT ID
3487
J-GLOBAL ID
200906023851982732
Show all 17 identifiers +5
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
stop-consonants
KBpedia ID
Stop-Consonant
Lex ID
klusil
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2776893716
Topic's main category
Category:Plosives

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 23
glottal stop, voiceless bilabial plosive, voiced bilabial plosive, voiceless velar stop, voiced velar stop, voiceless palatal plosive, voiced alveolar stop, voiced palatal plosive +15 more
Subclass of 2
consonant, occlusive consonant
Instance of 1
manner of articulation
Said to be the same as 1
occlusive consonant
Topic's main category 1
Category:Plosives
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Plosives
← Said to be the same as 1
occlusive consonant
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Summary

plosive consonant is a manner of articulation[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 27d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → manner of articulation
    Subclass of → consonant, occlusive consonant
    ISOCAT ID → 3487
    Said to be the same as → occlusive consonant
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: ISOCAT ID: 3487, Matched to Stop (#7328721) in ISOCAT #mix'n'match"
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