| In phonetics, articulation may be divided into two large classes, obstruents and sonorants. |
| Voiceless sonorants tend to be extremely quiet and difficult to recognise, even for those people whose language has them. |
| Moreover, fricatives can be targeted by the glottal feature, but are optimally realised as sonorants in such cases. |
| Initial glottalized sonorants are typically but not invariably pre-glottalized. |
| Old Irish had one of the most complex sonorant systems recorded in linguistics, with 12 coronal sonorants alone. |
| The lenition of stops between sonorants is a process that is relatively common cross-linguistically. |
