| As a sonorant, lateral approximants are nearly always voiced. |
| The notion of syllable is challenged by languages that allow long strings of obstruents without any intervening vowel or sonorant. |
| In older usage, only the term resonant was used with this meaning, and sonorant was a narrower term, referring to all resonants except vowels and semivowels. |
| The inserted consonant is homorganic with the following sonorant, which means it has the same place of articulation. |
| Old Irish had one of the most complex sonorant systems recorded in linguistics, with 12 coronal sonorants alone. |
| This suggests that it was not a voiceless sonorant, but retained stronger frication. |
