| Many aboriginal Australian languages have a series of three or four lateral approximants, as do various dialects of Irish. |
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| The consonants in the words we and you are examples of approximants. |
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| Tamil consonants are presented as hard, soft and medial in some grammars which roughly corresponds to plosives, nasals and approximants. |
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| In order to maintain sustained voicing, the intraoral pressure might not be high enough to create the necessary frication noise, resulting in voiced approximants. |
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| Lengthened fricatives, nasals, laterals, approximants and trills are simply prolonged. |
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| There are five place contrasts for oral and nasal obstruents, and four for approximants. |
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| Thus, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal fricatives never contrast with approximants. |
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| As a sonorant, lateral approximants are nearly always voiced. |
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| Approximants are produced when one articulator approaches another but does not make the vocal tract so narrow that a turbulent airstream results. |
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