| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| softest | (of a consonant) Pronounced as a fricative (as c in ice) |
| cedilla | diacritical mark, somewhat resembling a comma, placed under a consonant letter, as under c in a French word, to indicate that the c is pronounced as soft rather than hard , and in some other languages, as Turkish and Romanian, to indi |
| affricate | a consonant that begins as a plosive and ends as a fricative / to sound a consonant in this way |
| affricates | AFFRICATE, a consonant that begins as a plosive and ends as a fricative |
| sonorant | voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w) |
