approximant consonant

speech sound that involves articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough to create turbulent airflow
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approximant consonant

Summary

approximant consonant is a manner of articulation[1]. It draws 187 Wikipedia views per month (manner_of_articulation category, ranking #2 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • approximant consonant's instance of is recorded as manner of articulation[3].
  • approximant consonant's GND ID is recorded as 4656130-4[4].
  • approximant consonant's subclass of is recorded as consonant[5].
  • approximant consonant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0vf1[6].
  • approximant consonant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Approximant consonants[7].
  • approximant consonant's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[8].
  • approximant consonant's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/approximant[9].
  • approximant consonant's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 3085[10].
  • approximant consonant's BabelNet ID is recorded as 01210553n[11].
  • approximant consonant's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as consonne-spirante[12].
  • approximant consonant's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2775988552[13].
  • approximant consonant's New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech ID is recorded as APROXIMANTA[14].
  • approximant consonant's J-GLOBAL ID is recorded as 201606019916255130[15].

Why It Matters

approximant consonant draws 187 Wikipedia views per month (manner_of_articulation category, ranking #2 of 6).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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