Final consonants are typically highly restricted, often limited to glides and nasals or unreleased stops at the same points of articulation, with no clusters and no voice distinction.

A stop with no audible release, commonly called an unreleased stop, is a stop consonant with no release burst: no audible indication of the end of its occlusion (hold).

For example, second-language speakers of English whose first language is Korean have been found to be more accurate with perception of unreleased stops in English than native English speakers who are functionally monolingual, due to the different status of unreleased stops in Korean vis-a-vis English.