Liquid consonant
| Manners of articulation |
| Nasal consonant |
| Stop consonant |
| Fricative consonant |
| Affricate consonant |
| Apical consonant |
| Laminal consonant |
| Lateral consonant |
| Approximant consonant |
| Semivowel |
| Liquid consonant |
| Flap consonant |
| Trill consonant |
| Ejective consonant |
| Implosive consonant |
| Click consonant |
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Liquid consonants, or liquids, are approximant consonants that are not classified as semivowels (glides) because they do not correspond phonetically to specific vowels (in the way that, for example, the initial [j] in English yes corresponds to [i]). The class of liquids can be divided into lateral liquids and rhotics.
English sounds [l] and [ɹ] are typical liquids.
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