31. The "'voiceless postalveolar non-sibilant fricative "'is a consonantal sound. 32. Number formation generally follows the same logic as before, with the same consonantal and tonal shifts. 33. Sequences of phonetic consonants have been analyzed by Pellard ( 2009 ) as being phonemically consonantal as well. 34. Given a consonantal grouping C 1 ( ) C 2 ( ), where C is any consonant. 35. The Phoenician alphabet was one of the first ( consonantal ) alphabets with a strict and consistent form. 36. More recent research claims that the duration of consonantal and vocalic intervals is responsible for syllable-timed perception. 37. Word onset is always consonantal in Tlingit, i . e . no word may begin with a vowel. 38. In the early history of most individual Germanic languages, syllabic was generally lost, while consonantal was retained. 39. All consonantal phonemes except may be a syllable French, resulting in / re . los / in Ilokano. 40. I did suggest the concept of consonantal writing was most probably passed from the Egyptians to the Western Semits.