Only single consonants are considered here.

Double consonants are pronounced as single consonants, except in compound words.

Certain suffixes begin with consonant clusters or consist of single consonants, including vocalic length.

Prefixes are mostly single consonants, C-, and do not carry tone.

However, for the purposes of determining whether a syllable is open or closed, these single consonants continue to act as consonant clusters.

The following combinations, derived from Greek, are also pronounced as single consonants:

Idiosyncratically, these are all consonant clusters rather than single consonants.

These sounds are clearly single consonants rather than consonant clusters.

This applied to those consonants written as capitals; minuscule y and n are single consonants.

Double consonants are reduced to single consonants, but not otherwise lenited.