| Unlike the English alphabet of 26 letters, the Tlingit language has at least 32 consonants and eight vowels. |
| In most circumstances, long u is music-u, the initial i glide being assimilated to produce truth-u only after certain consonants. |
| There is cross-linguistic evidence for associating anaptyxis-prothesis asymmetries with the nature of the consonants involved in the process. |
| For instance, aspirated consonants are written with a small superscript h after the symbol for the corresponding unaspirated consonant. |
| Southern Sotho utilizes click consonants in some words, while Sepedi does not have clicks. |
| Now they're saddled with Slavonic tongue-twisters with more consonants and fewer vowels than can possibly be good for them. |
