List of consonants


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, ordered by place and manner of articulation.

Ordered by [place of articulation]

[Labial consonant]s

[Bilabial consonant]s

[Dental consonant]s

[Palatal consonant]s

[Pharyngeal consonant]s

;Pulmonic consonants

Nasal (stop) consonants">Nasal consonant">Nasal (stop) consonants

;Sibilant fricatives
;Central non-sibilant fricatives
;Lateral fricatives
;both fricatives and approximants
;Pseudo-fricatives
;Sibilant affricates
;Non-sibilant affricates
;Lateral affricates
;Approximants
;Fricatives
;Affricates
;Flaps
;Ejective
;Clicks
;Plosives
;Affricates
;Fricatives
;Plosives
;Fricatives
;Approximants
The less common clicks, such as are found in Taa, are not included.
;Simple clicks
;Glottalized clicks
;Pulmonic-contour clicks
;Ejective-contour clicks
These are not found in any language, but occur as phonetic detail or through speech defects.