Approximant
//əˈpɹɑksəmənt//
"Approximant" in a Sentence (3 examples)
A linguistics student swallowed her own tongue after attempting the legendary glottal approximant.
The alveolar approximant is a sound that is very rare in languages worldwide, but exists in the English language.
In English, consonantal Y is a palatal approximant.
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