Table of consonants

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The following tables show all the consonants listed by the International Phonetic Alphabet. The first table contains consonants articulated in the front part of the mouth, and the second table contains consonants articulated in the back part of the mouth. The places of articulation are listed on top, and the manners of articulation on the left side. Where consonants occur in pairs, the consonant on the left represents a voiceless articulation and the consonant on the right represents a voiced articulation.

Affricates are not included in the table, since they are generally composed of symbols in the table. Phonologically they do function as single consonants in many languages.

	Bilabial		Labiodental		Dental		Alveolar		Postalveolar		Retroflex		Labial-palatal
Plosive	p	b	p̪	b̪	t̪	d̪	t	d			ʈ	ɖ
Implosive	ɓ̥	ɓ				ɗ̪		ɗ				*
Ejective	pʼ				t̪ʼ		tʼ				ʈʼ
Nasal	m̥	m	ɱ̊	ɱ	n̪̊	n̪	n̥	n			ɳ̊	ɳ
Trill		ʙ					r̥	r				*
Tap or Flap		*		*				ɾ				ɽ
Lateral flap								ɺ				*
Fricative	ɸ	β	f	v	θ	ð	s	z	ʃ	ʒ	ʂ	ʐ
Lateral fricative							ɬ	ɮ			*
Ejective fricative							s’		ʃ’
Ejective lateral fricative							ɬ’
Percussive	ʬ				ʭ
Approximant	β̞̊	β̞	ʋ̥	ʋ		ð̞	ɹ̥	ɹ			ɻ̊	ɻ	ɥ̊	ɥ
Lateral approximant							l̥	l				ɭ
Click consonant	ʘ				ǀ		( ǃ)		ǃ / ǂ
Lateral click					*		ǁ

	Alveolo-palatal		Palatal		Labial-velar		Velar		Uvular		Pharyngeal		Epiglottal		Glottal
Plosive	ȶ	ȡ	c	ɟ	k͡p	ɡ͡b	k	g	q	ɢ			ʡ		ʔ
Implosive				ʄ				ɠ		ʛ
Ejective			cʼ				kʼ		qʼ
Nasal		ȵ		ɲ		ŋ͡m		ŋ		ɴ
Trill										ʀ				*
Tap or Flap														*
Lateral flap				*				*
Fricative	ɕ	ʑ	ç	ʝ			x	ɣ	χ	ʁ	ħ	ʕ	ʜ	ʢ	h	ɦ
Approximant				j	ʍ	w		ɰ
Lateral approximant		ȴ		ʎ				ʟ

Other consonants:

• Simultaneous palato-alveolar and velar fricative : ɧ
• Velopharyngeal fricative: ʩ

[edit] See also

• List of phonetics topics
• list of consonants
• table of vowels