|Manners of articulation| |See also: Place of articulation|
|This page contains phonetic information in IPA, which may not
display correctly in some browsers. [Help]| In phonetics, an
obstruent is a consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway,
causing turbulence. Obstruents are subdivided into plosives,
fricatives, and affricates. Obstruents are prototypically
voiceless, though voiced obstruents are common. This contrasts
with sonorants, which are rarely voiceless.