Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The great defect of that instrument was the rendering of the overtones in music, and the hissing consonants in speech. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
He had not even remembered that it was low-pitched, with a faint roughness on the consonants. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
It consisted at first of consonants, and the Greeks added the vowels. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.