| Thus, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal fricatives never contrast with approximants. |
| There are five place contrasts for oral and nasal obstruents, and four for approximants. |
| Lengthened fricatives, nasals, laterals, approximants and trills are simply prolonged. |
| As a sonorant, lateral approximants are nearly always voiced. |
| The consonants in the words we and you are examples of approximants. |
| Many aboriginal Australian languages have a series of three or four lateral approximants, as do various dialects of Irish. |
