Consonant
101Syllabic consonant — A syllabic consonant is a consonant which either forms a syllable of its own, or is the nucleus of a syllable. Those using the consonant make the syllable become a syllable by causing the consonant, thus creating a syllable. The diacritic for… …
102Uvular-epiglottal consonant — A uvular epiglottal consonant is a doubly articulated consonant pronounced by making a simultaneous uvular consonant and epiglottal consonant. An example is the Somali uvular plosive /q/, which is actually a voiceless uvular epiglottal plosive… …
103Denti-alveolar consonant — Places of articulation Labial Bilabial Labial–velar Labial–coronal Labiodental Dentolabial Bidental …
104plosive consonant — noun a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it his stop consonants are too aspirated • Syn: ↑stop consonant, ↑stop, ↑occlusive, ↑plosive speech sound, ↑plosive • Ant: ↑ …
105first consonant shift — noun see consonant shift * * * the consonant shift described by Grimm s law, which distinguishes Germanic languages from other Indo European languages. Cf. consonant shift, second consonant shift. [1930 35] …
106second consonant shift — noun see consonant shift * * * the consonant shift by which High German became differentiated from other Germanic languages. Cf. consonant shift, first consonant shift. [1935 40] …
107Lateral consonant — Lateral release ◌ˡ IPA number 426 view …
108Labial consonant — Labials are consonants articulated either with both lips (bilabial articulation) or with the lower lip and the upper teeth (labiodental articulation). English IPA| [m] is a bilabial nasal sonorant, IPA| [b] and IPA| [p] are bilabial stops… …
109Uvular consonant — Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants. Uvulars may be plosives, fricatives, nasal stops, trills, or approximants, though the IPA does not …
110Glottal consonant — Glottal consonants are consonants articulated with the glottis. Many phoneticians consider them, or at least the so called fricatives, to be transitional states of the glottis without a point of articulation as other consonants have; in fact,… …
