| Faroese shares with other North Germanic languages the feature of contrasting aspirated and unaspirated stops. |
| Mandarin Chinese has just two series of stops and affricates, one aspirated, the other unaspirated. |
| Unlike most Indian languages, Tamil does not distinguish aspirated and unaspirated consonants. |
| Armenian and Cantonese have aspiration that lasts about as long as English aspirated stops, in addition to unaspirated stops. |
| Unaspirated sounds seem to be voiced, aspirated ones voiceless. |
| Stops are distinguished primarily by voicing, and voiceless stops are sometimes aspirated, while voiced stops are usually unaspirated. |
