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The
Consonants
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The
next set of consonants consist of the "soft" dental sounds given
below:
Though all the above sounds require that the
tongue touch the top palate while being pronounced, the aspirations are such
that the sounds come out "soft", and not hard like the earlier
series of retroflexes  .
Thus the symbol T is pronounced the way one would pronounce the letter T
in the name "TIBET". In Kashmiri the following are some of the
words that use this sound:
This t.mp3 is also used as a curse when one is
vexed, or as a hyper superlative.
The consonant TH, th is used to represent
the sound of the letters TH in the English word THIN.
Here are some of the Kashmiri words that use the
above sound:
 A
disturbance, that is especially irksome because it prevents you from doing
something more important. To inhibit.
The symbol D, d is used to identify the
sound associated with the pronunciation of the letters TH in the English
word THEN.
A number of Kashmiri words use this sound as
shown:
The next consonant in this sequence of soft
dentals, is the one denoted by the symbol N, n. It is pronounced as one
would pronounce N in the English word NO.
Kashmiri words using this sound include:
 
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