Aspirated consonants are written as if they were clusters ending in h.

In many Malayalam movie songs, one may find only minimal aspirated consonants.

The aspirated consonants are sometimes classified as separate letters, although it takes two characters to represent them.

Aspirated consonants are not always followed by vowels or other voiced sounds.

Unlike most other Indian languages, Tamil does not have aspirated consonants.

As with other Indic languages, aspirated consonants are distinctive.

If two aspirated consonants are brought together in one stem, the first such consonant loses its aspiration.

Virtually all Dardic languages have experienced a partial or complete loss of aspirated consonants.

An unmarked h is used to form digraphs denoting aspirated consonants.

Otherwise aspirated consonants are not common.

Some writers mark aspirated consonants with an apostrophe (t'embo).

Igbo has also been observed to utilize an increase in subglottal pressure involving its aspirated consonants.

Aspirated consonants are sometimes used in the Brahmin dialect, but are not phonemic.

Likewise, aspirated consonants may have diffused into Zuni.

These usually represented aspirated consonants (e.g. t+h, p+h, k+h), but might represent other consonantal variations required.

All languages have aspirated consonants.

However, aspirated consonants were distinguished.

Intervocally, the aspirated consonants become pre-aspirated; when following nasals, they lose their aspiration entirely.

Ejective and aspirated consonants occur only syllable-initially.

Around this time, the PIE aspirated consonants merged with voiced ones:

In general, voiced initial consonants lead to low tones, while vowels after aspirated consonants acquire a high tone.

In most Aslian languages, aspirated consonants are analyzed as sequences of two phonemes, one of which happens to be h.

The system also attempts to represent sounds in Dzongkha that don't occur in English, such as retroflex and aspirated consonants.

The "muddy" consonants in Shanghainese are slack voice; they contrast with tenuis and aspirated consonants.

French, Dutch, Tamil, Italian, and Latvian are languages that do not have aspirated consonants.