dental continuant
phonetics
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Semitic languages
- In Semitic languages: The dental continuant or interdental sounds
In phonetic terms, the dental continuants (voiceless *th and voiced *dh) were probably pronounced like the initial sounds of English think and this, respectively. The emphatic *ṭh of early Semitic was probably an analogue to th pronounced as an ejective.
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