Plural of aphonic; people or cases characterized by aphonia, or the study of voiceless speech patterns.
From the adjective aphonic with '-s' pluralization or '-ics' suffix (like in phonics), creating a noun form.
Interestingly, just as 'phonics' teaches children how to make sounds, studying aphonics teaches us what happens when the voice system breaks down completely.
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