Related Words for lenis

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liquid
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labial
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vocal
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lateral
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weak
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lingual
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narrow
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Adjective
open
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close
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flat
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nasal
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Adjective
voiced
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Verb
medial
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Adjective
phonetic
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Adjective
oral
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Adjective
checked
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Verb
pure
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Adjective
articulate
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Adjective
spoken
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Verb
aspirated
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Adjective
emphatic
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Adjective
distinctive
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Adjective
harmonic
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Noun
pharyngeal
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literal
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Adjective
phonemic
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Adjective
tonal
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strong
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Adjective
apical
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compositional
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tonic
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Noun
front
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cognate
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proximal
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level
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back
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Adverb
colloquial
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Noun
distal
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Noun
lexical
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Adjective
inflected
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Adjective
univocal
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Adjective
phonological
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Adjective
literate
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Adjective
acute
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Adjective
syllabic
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Adjective
final
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Adjective
dialectal
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Adjective
isolating
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Verb
cognitive
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Adjective
genetic
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Adjective
phrasal
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linguistic
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marked
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Adjective
gendered
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Adjective
ultimate
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Adjective
thematic
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Adjective
middle
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Noun
defunct
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Adjective
verbal
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Adjective
inclusive
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exclusive
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Adjective
standard
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Noun
indefinite
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Adjective
intrusive
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Adjective
count
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Noun
gingival
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synchronic
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Adjective
notional
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Adjective
ungrammatical
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Adjective
fortis
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Noun
consonants
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Noun
stops
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Noun
accusative
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Adjective, Noun
aspectual
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Adjective
categorical
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dichotomous
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Adjective
fricative
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Adjective, Noun
imperfective
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Adjective, Noun
periphery
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Noun
sharpest
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Adjective
stark
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Adjective, Name, Adverb, Verb
unbridgeable
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Adjective
vocalic
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Adjective
voiceless
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Adjective
chunk
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Noun, Verb
cluster
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Noun, Verb
vernacular
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Noun, Adjective
collocation
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expression
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literally
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Adverb
sorta
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Adverb
milestone
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Noun, Verb
tell
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Verb, Noun
headlines
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Noun
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
anymore
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Adverb
daylight
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Noun, Verb