Likewise, there is no length opposition in the affricates since they consist of two adjacent voiceless sounds.

In Northern Dutch there is a tendency for using the voiceless sound in all places.

In phonetics, a voiceless sound is produced when there is no vibration of the vocal cords.

They are voiceless at the end of a word or before a voiceless sound.

In Welsh, ll stands for a voiceless lateral fricative sound.

Voiced consonant letters frequently come to represent voiceless sounds (as shown in the above tables).

Diacritics are typically used with letters for prototypically voiceless sounds.

The letter z has been used similarly to Italian, that is to indicate both voiced and also voiceless sounds.

The sounds are voiceless when the word is followed by a voiceless sound or a pause.

She did not reply in that wordless, voiceless sound but in a thought touch as firm and clear: "We hear and we come!"