| Mandarin Chinese has just two series of stops and affricates, one aspirated, the other unaspirated. |
| If a flame is held before the lips while these words are spoken, it flickers more during aspirated nitrate than during unaspirated night rate. |
| Stops are distinguished primarily by voicing, and voiceless stops are sometimes aspirated, while voiced stops are usually unaspirated. |
| Faroese shares with other North Germanic languages the feature of contrasting aspirated and unaspirated stops. |
| Unaspirated sounds seem to be voiced, aspirated ones voiceless. |
| Armenian and Cantonese have aspiration that lasts about as long as English aspirated stops, in addition to unaspirated stops. |
