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Types of sounds - click on a type of sound, and it will take you further down the page to examples.

Advanced Tongue Root
Breathy voice
Clicks
Clusters
Creaky voice
Double Articulations
Ejectives
Fortis/Lenis Consonants
Implosives
Laryngealization
Laterals
Length
Mora
Murmur (breathy voice)
Nasal consonants
Nasalized vowels
Place of Articulation
Labial
Coronal
Dorsal, Pharyngeal, Glottal
Pressed voice
Rhotics
Secondary Articulations
Semivowels
Sibilants
Tones
Trills
VOT (Voice Onset Time)
Vowels


Advanced Tongue Root
ATR vowels in Akan
ATR vowels in Ijo

Breathy voice (Murmur)
Breathy voiced nasals in Marathi
Breathy voiced nasals in Newari
Breathy voiced nasals in Tsonga
Breathy voiced stops in Hindi
Breathy voiced stops in Igbo
Breathy voiced stops in Nepali
Breathy voiced stops in Sindhi

Breathy vowels in !Xóõ
Breathy vowels in Gujarati
Breathy vowels in Mazatec

Slack voice in Javanese


Clicks
Clicks in Nama
Clicks in Xhosa
Clicks in Zhu|hõasi
Clicks in Zulu

Clusters
Clusters in Tsou

Clusters in Polish
Voiced+voiceless clusters in Zhu|hõasi

Coronal
Interdental fricatives in Greek
Dental & alveolar laterals in Kaititj
Dental & alveolar stops in Nunggubuyu
Dental & alveolar stops in Temne
Alveolar & postalveolar fricatives (12) in Ubykh
Retroflex stops in Hindi
Retroflex stops in Javanese
Retroflex stops in Sindhi
Palatals and alveolars in Italian

Dorsal
Palatals in Hungarian

Palatal and velars in Ngwo
Palatals and velars in Margi
Velar fricatives in Greek
Uvular, pharyngeal and glottal consonants in Hebrew
Uvular consonants in Aleut

Uvular and velar stops in K’ekchi
Uvular and velar stops in Quechua
Uvular rhotics in French

Ejectives
Ejectives in Montana Salish

Ejectives in K’ekchi
Ejectives in Lakhota
Ejectives in Navajo
Ejectives in Quechua

Fortis/Lenis Consonants
Fortis/lenis obstruents in Korean

Glottal
Glottal consonants in Gimi
Glottal consonants in Hebrew

Implosives
Implosives in Sindhi

Voiceless and voiced implosives in Igbo

Labial
Bilabial & labiodental fricatives in Ewe
Bilabial & labiodental fricatives in Venda
Labiodental fricative and approximant in Isoko
Linguo-labials in V’enen Taut
Labial-velar stops in Idoma
Labial-velar stops in Yoruba
Labial-velars in Bura

Laryngealization (Creaky voice, Pressed voice)
Laryngealized vowels in Mazatec
Laryngealization in Hausa
Laryngealized semi-vowels in Bura
Laryngealized vowels in Bruu
Laryngealized vowels in Mpi
Laryngealized liquids and glottal stops in Kambaata

Laterals
Dental & alveolar laterals in Kaititj
Laterally released stops in Navajo
Laterals (4) in Bura
Laterals (4) in Zulu
Palatal laterals in Italian
Velar laterals in Melpa
Velar laterals in Mid-Waghi
Voiced & voiceless laterals (4) in Toda

Length
Vowel length in Danish
Vowel length in Swedish
Vowel length in Icelandic
Initial long consonants in Malay

Mora

Morae in Japanese

Nasal consonants
Breathy voiced nasals in Marathi
Breathy voiced nasals in Newari
Breathy voiced nasals in Tsonga
Nasals (6 places of articulation) in Malayalam
Nasals (6 places of articulation) in Wangurri
Nasals (7 places of articulation) in Yanyuwa
Prenasalization in Kele
Prenasalization in Titan
Voiceless nasals in Burmese
Voiceless nasals in Angami

Nasalized vowels

Semivowels
Semivowels in French

Rhotics
Rhotics in Edo
Trills (3) in Toda
Trills (2) in Finnish
Uvular rhotics in French

Tones
Tones (3) in Ibibio
Tones (4) in Chinese, Standard
Tones (5) in Thai
Tones (6) in Mpi
Tones (7) in Hmong
Tones (9) in Cantonese

Trills
Bilabial trills in Kele
Bilabial trills in Titan
Bilabial trills in Oro Win
Trills (3) in Toda
Trills (2) in Finnish
Trills in Icelandic
Trills in Russian

Secondary articulations
Labialization in Bura
Palatalized consonants in Russian
Pharyngealization in Arabic

VOT
VOT in Armenian
VOT in Hindi
VOT in Igbo
VOT in Korean
VOT in Lakohta
VOT in Navajo
VOT in Sindhi
VOT in Thai
Preaspirated stops in Icelandic

Vowels
Back over-rounded vowels in Assamese
Back unrounded vowels in Gaelic
Back unrounded vowels in Turkish
Back unrounded vowels in Vietnamese
Front rounded vowels in Dutch
Front rounded vowels in French
Front rounded vowels in German
Front rounded vowels in Norwegian
Front rounded vowels in Turkish

ATR vowels in Akan
ATR vowels in Ijo
Retroflex vowels in Badaga

Nasalized vowels in Chinantec
Nasalized vowels in Ijo
Nasalized vowels in French
Nasal spreading in Sundanese