son orant
ənt, -ˈnoʊr-, soʊ- noun
1.
2.
a speech sound characterized by relatively free air passage through some channel, as a vowel, semivowel, liquid, or nasal. Compare obstruent.
adjective
3.
of, pertaining to, or having the properties of a sonorant.
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| —n | |
| 1. | one of the frictionless continuants or nasals (l, r, m, n, ) having consonantal or vocalic functions depending on its situation within the syllable |
| 2. | either of the two consonants represented in English orthography by w or y and regarded as either consonantal or vocalic articulations of the vowels and |
| [from Latin sonor a noise + | |
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