The class contrasts with lateral consonants, in which air flows over the sides of the tongue rather than down its center.

It is somewhat unusual in that it lacks lateral consonants.

Several of the Chimbu-Wahgi languages have interesting lateral consonants.

Like other Chimbu languages, Kuman has rather unusual lateral consonants.

They are lateral consonants, which means they are produced by releasing the airstream at the side of the tongue, rather than in the middle.

In phonetics, liquids or liquid consonants are a class of consonants consisting of lateral consonants together with rhotics.

Alawa has a typical consonant inventory for an Indigenous Australian language, with five contrastive places of articulation, multiple lateral consonants, and no voicing contrast among the stops.

Patients with early cases of PBP have difficulty with pronunciations, particularly lateral consonants (linguals) and velars, and may show problems with drooling saliva.

Due to Kutenai's location on the periphery of the northwest linguistic area, the loss of a rich lateral inventory is consistent with other interior northwest languages which today have only one or two lateral consonants.