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Voiced and unvoiced consonants.
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Many consonants in English are paired together
because one is the unvoiced version of the other.
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They take the same mouth position,
and the same tongue position.
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But in one of them, you just go 'hhh,' passing air.
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In the other one, you actually make a
sound: uh, uh. For example: ch, ch.
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Only air is coming through my teeth. Jj,
jj: I'm making an 'uh, uh' sound here.
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Within the pairs, the unvoiced sounds are:
tt, ff, pp, kk, th, ss, sh, ch.
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The voiced sounds of those are:
dd, vv, bb, gg, th, zz, dj, jj.
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And in the consonants that have no pair,
there is only one that is unvoiced.
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And that is the hh as in 'hi.' The others are
all voiced. mm, nn, ng, ll, rr, yy, ww.
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