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In linguistics, a liquid consonant or simply liquid is any of a class of consonants that consists of rhotics and voiced lateral approximants, which are also sometimes described as "R-like sounds" and "L-like sounds". The word liquid seems to be a calque of the Ancient Greek word ὑγρός (hygrós, transl. moist), initially used by grammarian Dionysius Thrax to describe Greek sonorants.
Liquid consonants are more prone to be part of consonant clusters and of the syllable nucleus. Their third formants are generally non-predictable based on the first two formants. Another important feature is their complex articulation, which makes them a hard consonant class to study with precision and the last consonants to be produced by children during their phonological development. They are also more likely to undergo certain types of phonological changes such as assimilation, dissimilation and metathesis.
Most languages have at least one liquid in their phonemic inventory. English has two, /l/ and /ɹ/.
transcription delimiters. In linguistics, a liquidconsonant or simply liquid is any of a class of consonants that consists of rhotics and voiced lateral...
transcription delimiters. In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel...
sonorants, as are semivowels like [j] and [w], nasal consonants like [m] and [n], and liquidconsonants like [l] and [r]. This set of sounds contrasts with...
succeeded by labial consonants. For example, word tanbara is written as ᬢᬫ᭄ᬪᬭ ([tambʰara]), not written as ᬢᬦ᭄ᬪᬭ (*[tanbʰara]). Liquidconsonant, ᬭ [r] and ᬮ...
§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure...
transcription delimiters. In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquidconsonants that are traditionally represented orthographically...
and liquidconsonants. Example: un [b]arco 'a boat', mi [β]arco 'my boat'. This also occurs in Hebrew (as begedkefet, an acronym for the consonants this...
A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through...
the rhotic (r-sound) in a language is a tap or a trill. Lateral consonantLiquidconsonant Nicolosi, Lucille; Harryman, Elizabeth; Kresheck, Janet; eds....
and final consonant Medial ⟨μ⟩: Optional semivowel or liquid Nucleus ⟨ν⟩: A vowel or syllabic consonant Coda ⟨κ⟩: Optional final consonant Tone ⟨τ⟩: May...
A central consonant, also known as a median consonant, is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue...
The Slavic liquid metathesis refers to the phenomenon of metathesis of liquidconsonants in the Common Slavic period in the South Slavic and West Slavic...
a descender, such as in [ŋ̍]. Syllabic consonants in most languages are sonorants, such as nasals and liquids. Very few have syllabic obstruents (i.e...
two letters have different Unicode encodings. Rho is classed as a liquidconsonant (together with Lambda and sometimes the nasals Mu and Nu), which has...
language whose consonant inventory includes a prestopped velar lateral approximant /ɡ͡ʟ/; this complex segment is Hiw's only native liquid. Historically...
شمس šəms ("sun") Various Austronesian languages have consonant harmony among the liquidconsonants, with [r] assimilating at a distance to [l] or vice...
which C can be an obstruent or a liquidconsonant. V can be realized as a doubled vowel or a diphthong. A final consonant of a Finnish word, though not a...
diphthongs. Look up approximant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Liquidconsonant List of phonetics topics Semivowel Ladefoged (1975:277) Martínez-Celdrán...
for some English words with "gh", such as "tough"), [j] between a liquidconsonant [l] or [r] and a vowel [e] (like in kuljen 'I go', a form of the verb...
languages also resemble Ainu and modern Korean in having a single liquidconsonant phoneme. A five-vowel system like Standard Japanese /a/, /i/, /u/,...
understood to include liquids and glides but to exclude nasals, as in Bennett (2020: 115) 'Click Phonology', in Sands (ed.), Click Consonants, Brill {Close vowel}...
other processes to affect consonants in the final position such as /n/ velarization and neutralization of liquidconsonants. Word-final /n/ becomes [ŋ]...
sequences of a short vowel followed by *l or *r and another consonant, the so-called "liquid diphthongs". These sequences went counter to the law of open...
contrast. Korean also resembles Japonic and Ainu in having a single liquidconsonant, while its continental neighbours tend to distinguish /l/ and /r/....
texts. In pegon, consonant clusters are written in two ways. In clusters that consist of a nasal consonant followed by a liquidconsonant, such as [mr],...
corresponding language's lack of common sounds. Māori, having only one liquidconsonant, is an example of this here. London (originally Latin: Londinium),...
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