The language always sounds like someone needs to sneeze or just recovered from a cold. Also the group of people speaking loud Portuguese behind you in line, won't acknowledge that you exist even though they are 1 foot away. Yes, they talk over everyone in the room, even over people's ...
As to the consonants, I organized the sounds into three main classes and two types: - Obstruents (plosives, affricates), continuants (fricatives), sonorants (liquids, vibrants, approximants) plus the distinction into - Voiced vs. unvoiced. In this case, the ratios are computed dividing the ...