Approximant consonants

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough, nor with enough articulatory precision, to create turbulent airflow. Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which produce a turbulent airstream, and vowels, which produce no turbulence. This class is composed of sounds like (as in ) and semivowels like and (as in ' and ', respectively), as well as lateral approximants like (as in '''').

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

type of consonant used in many spoken languages

In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable. Examples of semivowels in English are y and w in yes and west, respectively. Written in IPA, y and w are near to the vowels ee and oo in seen and moon, written in IPA. The term glide may alternatively refer to any type of transitional sound, not necessarily a semivowel.

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonant sound