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What does unaspirated mean?

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Adjective
  1. (phonology) Not aspirated
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Unaspirated sounds seem to be voiced, aspirated ones voiceless.
For instance, aspirated consonants are written with a small superscript h after the symbol for the corresponding unaspirated consonant.
Mandarin Chinese has just two series of stops and affricates, one aspirated, the other unaspirated.
Armenian and Cantonese have aspiration that lasts about as long as English aspirated stops, in addition to unaspirated stops.
After an s elsewhere in a word they are normally unaspirated as well, except sometimes in compound words.
If a flame is held before the lips while these words are spoken, it flickers more during aspirated nitrate than during unaspirated night rate.

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