👉 Semiconsonantal is a term used in linguistics and phonetics to describe a sound that contains one or more consonants, but does not include any vowels. In other words, it's a sound with no vowel sounds. Semiconsonantal sounds are often associated with certain types of speech patterns, such as those seen in spoken language and dialects, where the absence of an articulatory vowel is noticeable. For example, in English, "the" is a semiconsonantal sound