[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, fortis (/ˈfɔːrtɪs/ FOR-tiss; Latin for 'strong') and lenis (/ˈliːnɪs/...

phonemes, as summarized in the following table. As for fortis and lenis ⟨m⟩, in time the lenis version (nasalized semivowel or labial fricative) came...

when trying to pronounce certain tongue twisters. Fortis and lenis are the classification of strong and weak consonants. Some characteristics of strong...

opposition of fortis /s/ ([s]) and lenis [z̥]. In varieties from Northern Germany, lenis stops in the syllable coda are realized as fortis stops. This does...

Occlusion: fortis stops and sibilants were fully occlusive, their lenis counterparts only partially so; fortis sibilants thus were affricates, lenis sibilants...

between /x/ and /r/ is neutralised, as is the distinction between lenis and fortis consonants in clusters. Basel German also has more lenis sounds in word-initial...

pairs, as in other Alemannic varieties. These pairs are usually called fortis and lenis. They are not distinguished by voicedness, but they differ in length...

terms fortis and lenis are often used to describe a binary opposition between a series of consonants with higher (more positive) VOT, defined as fortis, and...

languages, fortis typically corresponds to voicelessness and extra length in obstruents and extra length in sonorants. Lenis corresponds to voicing and less...

unstressed syllables and a complex set of phonological features that distinguish fortis and lenis consonants (stops, affricates, and fricatives). Phonological...

Southern German. German linguists call the distinction fortis and lenis rather than tense and lax. Tenseness is especially used to explain stop consonants...

fortis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fortis may refer to: Fortis (Swiss watchmaker), a Swiss watch company Fortis Films, an American film and television...

contrast in tenseness, called a fortis and lenis contrast. There is a hypothesis that the contrast between fortis and lenis consonants is related to the...

the lenis sounds to be devoiced in that position: [ˈʔapd̥aŋkn̩]. Southern accents (Southern German, Austrian, Swiss) generally realize the lenis sounds...

short vowels. See fortis and lenis for more details. In the table above, /h/ is classified as lenis on the basis of its length and distribution (it occurs...

The ejective, fortis, and lenis series of the alphabet are not distinguished in Osage orthography. Listed below is some features and phonological alternations...

fortis is sometimes used for aspiration or gemination, whereas lenis is used for single, tenuous, or voiced plosives. However, the terms fortis and lenis...

authors prefer to use the terms fortis and lenis in place of voiceless and voiced. However, the latter are traditional and in more frequent usage. The voiced...

(ʡ̯) Epiglottal plosive (ʡ) Epiglottal trill (ʢ) Formant Fortis (phonetics) Fortis and lenis Free vowel Fricative consonant Front vowel Gemination Georg...

argues that the distinction is better captured with the notion of a fortis/lenis contrast. A further characteristic of voicing in Navajo is that it is...

articulatory strength, so they have been analyzed as fortis and lenis.[citation needed] The fortis affricates are long in the fricative part of the contour...

fricative /ʃ/. The lenis consonants are: p, c, k, s, sh, t Consonant clusters of h followed by a lenis consonant correspond to fortis consonants in other...

fricatives, *s to debuccalise to [h], *f to elide, and the liquids *l, *n, *r to split into fortis and lenis variants. Though by the end of the Middle Irish...

Eastern Iranian, Tocharian, and Old Chinese. The consonant system had a two-way contrast of stop consonants (fortis vs. lenis), k, p, t vs. g, b, d. There...

this contrast, it is commonly characterized as a contrast between fortis and lenis consonants. Many Niger–Congo languages' vowel harmony is based on the...

distinguishing fortis and lenis consonants on the basis of voicing, with fortis being voiceless and lenis being voiced. In other dialects fortis consonants...

script. These fortis and lenis stops may have been distinguished by either voicing or gemination. The contrast was lost initially and finally, suggesting...

omitted. Some pairs of consonants like p::b, t::d are sometimes called fortis and lenis, but this is a phonological rather than phonetic distinction. Consonants...

speakers. In most cases, fortis and lenis refers to the voicing in consonants where fortis is voiceless and lenis is voiced. In this case, plosives are...

obstruents is more properly described as a fortis and lenis opposition than an opposition of voiceless and voiced sounds. Therefore, the term devoicing...