It has one set of symbols to represent initial consonants.

She swooped through long and short vowels and caught us in initial consonants.

Initials (or onsets) refer to the 19 initial consonants which may occur at the beginning of a sound.

In the various Chinese systems, traditional braille values are used for initial consonants and the simple vowels.

Senoic infixes are sensitive to the number of initial consonants in a root.

However, there are many contrasting aspirated and unaspirated pairs of such initial consonants.

Initial dropping may affect all initial consonants, or only some or one of them.

These fingers are used to generate initial consonants.

The second is predictive gemination of initial consonants on morpheme boundaries.

A number of words differ in initial consonants.