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Liquid consonants, or liquids, are speech sounds; more specific, they are approximant consonants that are not classified as semivowels (glides) because they do not correspond phonetically to specific vowels (in the way that, for example, the initial [j] in English yes corresponds to [i]). The class of liquids can be divided into lateral liquids and rhotics.
[l] and [r] are typical liquids.
See Phonetics, Stop consonant, Fricative, Affricate.
