Sibilant consonants

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

Sibilants (from ) are fricative and affricate consonants of higher amplitude and pitch. Examples of sibilants are the consonants at the beginning of the English words sip, zip, ship, and genre. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet used to denote the sibilant sounds in these words are, respectively, . Sibilants have a characteristically intense sound, which accounts for their paralinguistic use in getting one's attention (e.g. calling someone using "psst!" or quieting someone using "shhhh!").

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonant used in some oral languages

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound

consonantal sound