The "silent" final consonants present a more complex case.

As a result, final consonants do not experience liaison, i.e. run onto the next word.

Other final consonants are found as consonant clusters in the middle of a word.

This resulted in an unusual method of writing final consonants.

The sets of initial and final consonants are not the same.

Loss of final consonants before a word beginning with a consonant.

Loss of final consonants in a word standing alone.

One or more final consonants have been reduced or dropped.

She was able to discriminate between initial and final consonants.

In Linear B, such final consonants were simply not written.