abstract:In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages. Vowels are sonorants, as are consonants like and : approximants, nasals, taps, and trills.
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one of the frictionless continuants or nasals (l, r, m, n, ) having consonantal or vocalic functions depending on its situation within the syllable 无摩擦的响音
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