| After an s elsewhere in a word they are normally unaspirated as well, except sometimes in compound words. |
| Mandarin Chinese has just two series of stops and affricates, one aspirated, the other unaspirated. |
| For instance, aspirated consonants are written with a small superscript h after the symbol for the corresponding unaspirated consonant. |
| Unlike most Indian languages, Tamil does not distinguish aspirated and unaspirated consonants. |
| 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. |
