Sonorants

In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages. Vowels are sonorants, as are semivowels like and , nasals like and , and liquids (laterals and rhotics) like and . This set of sounds contrasts with the obstruents (stops, affricates and fricatives).