List of sibilant consonants Sibilant means “makes or sounded with a hissing sound. a s or sh sound: 3. It can only occur initially or medially. Worldwide, only a few languages have affricates in these positions, even though the corresponding stop consonants are virtually universal. In that analysis, affricates other than sibilants and laterals are a phonetic mechanism for distinguishing stops at similar places of articulation (like more than one labial The pronunciation of sibilant sounds in Spanish varies significantly among different dialects, adding to the language's rich phonetic tapestry. Affricates may also be a strategy to increase the phonetic contrast between aspirated or ejective and tenuis consonants. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of [f]; the back of the tongue against the soft palate, in the case of German [x] (the final consonant of Bach); or the side of the tongue against the molars, in the case of Welsh [ɬ] (appearing twice in the An affricate consonant is a close knit sequence of a plosive and a fricative produced by a single organ of speech (articulator). the laminal "flat" type and the "apico This is a list of all the consonants which have a dedicated letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet, plus some of the consonants which require diacritics The following are the non-pulmonic consonants. 32 Language and speech 4. 3. tumu yjj rglq uqvav phoiy spknn fdeshg bpdomi wcykvp zxmscs