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Pronunciation / Transliteration: museongeumhwadoen
"이 자음은 발화 끝에서 무성음화된다."
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Pronounced with little or no vocal cord vibration, typically applied to sounds that are normally voiced when adjacent to voiceless sounds or at the end of an utterance.
"In many dialects of English, the final consonant in 'dog' can become devoiced."
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The past tense and past participle of devoice, meaning to cause a speech sound to lose its voicing.
"The phonetics student devoiced the obstruent at the end of the word."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the English prefix de- (meaning 'removal of' or 'reversal') combined with voiced, originating from Old French 'voisier' and Latin 'vocare' (to call). Established in modern phonetic terminology during the late 19th century to describe sounds produced without vocal cord vibration.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Devoiced" is said worldwide
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sourdi
Transliteration: surdi
"Cette consonne est sourdi en fin de mot."
stimmlos gemacht
Transliteration: stimmlos gemacht
"Der Laut wird am Wortende stimmlos gemacht."
assorito
Transliteration: assorito
"Questo fono consonantico diventa assorito."
sordo
Transliteration: sordo
"La consonante final puede ser sorda en este contexto."
surdecido
Transliteration: surdecido
"O som foi surdecido devido à assimilação."
अघोषित
Transliteration: aghoshit
"इस शब्द के अंत में ध्वनि अघोषित हो जाती है।"
清音化
Transliteration: qīngyīnhuà
"这个辅音在词尾时被清音化了。"
무성음화된
Transliteration: museongeumhwadoen
"이 자음은 발화 끝에서 무성음화된다."
無声化された
Transliteration: museika sareta
"この母音は前後の環境によって無声化される。"
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