Aspirated consonant
In many languages, such as Armenian, Korean, Thai, Indo-Aryan languages, Dravidian languages, Icelandic, Ancient Greek, and the varieties of Chinese, tenuis and aspirated consonants are phonemic. Unaspirated consonants like [p= s=] and aspirated consonants like [ph hp sh] are separate phonemes, and words are distinguished by whether they have one or the other.
In languages like Thai and Icelandic, tenuis and aspirated consonants are what?
phonemic
In many languages, such as Armenian, Korean, Thai, Indo-Aryan languages, Dravidian languages, Icelandic, Ancient Greek, and the varieties of Chinese, tenuis and aspirated consonants are phonemic.
consonants