describe consonants (1)

Place of articulation: bilabial, labiodental, interdental,

alveolar, palatal, velar, uvular, glottal, pharyngeal

By: Andi Citra Dewi

 What is consonant?
Consonants are sounds in spoken language characterized by narrowing or closing at one or more points along the vocal
tract, such as the lips, tongue, and teeth. The word "consonant" also refers to each letter that denotes this type of sound.

Consonants generally do not sound alone but only appear with the nearest vowel. For example, consonants usually
cannot form words on their own, although some may act as vowels in certain words.

Consonants are consonants or more specifically letters in the alphabet other than vowels (A I U E O)
 PLACE OF ARTICULATION
The place of articulation refers to where the articulators (tongue, teeth, lips or
glottis) make contact in the vocal tract to create consonant sounds.

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Bilabial Labiodental Interdental
Bilabial: Bilabial sounds involve consonant sounds where the lips Interdental consonants are
the upper and lower lips. In the touch the teeth:/f/ and /v/ are produced by placing the tip of the
production of a bilabial sound, the labiodental. tongue between the upper and
lips come into contact with each lower front teeth, ⟨n̟ t̟ d̟ θ̟ ð̟ r̟ ɹ̟ l̟ ɬ̟
other to form an effective ɮ̟⟩ are interdental.
constriction. In English, /p,b,m/
are bilabial sounds.
 alveolar
Alveolar consonants are consonants
that are articulated with the tongue
touching or approaching the alveolum.
Alveolar consonants can be articulated
with the tip of the tongue, as in
English, or with the leaves of the
tongue (called laminal consonants), as
in French and Spanish. Laminal
alveolar articulations are often
mistakenly referred to as teeth,
because the tip of the tongue is close
to or touching the teeth.
Palatal
Palatal, in phonetics, a consonant
sound produced by raising the blade,
or front, of the tongue toward or
against the hard palate just behind the
alveolar ridge (the gums). English has
two consonants that are produced in
the palatal or pre-palatal regions of the
mouth: the affricate pair /ʤ/, /ʧ/, in
which each is a blend of a stop plus
fricative consonant which together
function as a single phoneme.
Velars
Velars consonants are consonants that
originate from the back of the tounge
(dosum) touching the soft palate,
namelhyy the back of the roof of the
mouth, also known as the velum.
Velar consonant that are palatalized
(such as /k/ in keen or cube)
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Uvulars Glottals Pharyngeals
Uvulars or pharynx In phonetics, a glottal stop is Pronounced or supplemented
consonant are consonant with sound made by rapidly in pronounciation with an
articulation placement closing the vocal cords. articulation in or constriction
behind the tounge close to In English /t/ glottals sound of the pharynx
the uvula.