Consonants can also be characterized by the manner that the airflow is blocked:

1)	Stops/Plosives

2)	Nasal sounds

3)	Fricatives

4)	Sibilants

5)	Affricates

6)	Approximants

7)	Lateral sounds

8)	Tap/Flap



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Consonants are the sounds you make when you block the flow of air in some way. Examples include \[z\], \[b\], \[f\], and others. Consonants can be voiced or unvoiced.

Consonant

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https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft) 

Consonants can be divided into classes by the places that they receive maximum restriction, i.e., place of articulation:

1)	Labial

2)	Dental

3)	Alveolar

4)	Palatal

5)	Velar

6)	Glotta


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