Talk:List of consonants

Lateral Consonants
The page at Lateral consonant has a list of lateral consonants, including:
 * Voiced alveolar lateral
 * Voiced retroflex lateral
 * Voiced palatal lateral
 * Voiced velar lateral

None of these links works. There were two others,


 * Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
 * Voiced alveolar lateral fricative

for which I added redirects to the appropriate places. I don't know enough about phonology to be able to do this for the other four. --Dominus 18:53, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

What's the point?
This is nowhere near a list of "all consonants", nor "all attested consonants", or even "all primary consonants" (ie. without a secondary articulation). "All consonants with dedicated single IPA symbol" would be closer, as well as "a manually up- and outdated index of Category:Consonants". So, opinions please: Is there a point to keeping this around that I'm missing, or should it just be worked on until it'd fulfill one of the first three descriptions? --Tropylium 14:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes.

Consonants may have many places of articulation simultaneously. At least two if that is lingual consonant, e.g. (radical, apical, dorsal)×(labial, interdental, alveolar, postalveolar) + palatalization + velarisation + pharyngealization. So that one-dimension list is too restricted. But sorry (uk:але жаль)! --W.M.drossel (talk) 10:51, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I wrote befor think. I wrote lingual×labial, but meant labiodental. Do there realy exists linguolabial consonant??

--W.M.drossel (talk) 10:56, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes: linguolabial consonant.


 * I agree there isn't much point to this. It also pretty much duplicates the table


 * And I say that as perhaps the person who's done the most work on this since 2006.
 * There's also Table of consonants, which IMO should also be deleted as basically useless. kwami (talk) 11:15, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Percussive
Hm. But what is percussive consonant?--VerbaGleb (talk) 09:45, 9 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I suspect they're flapping the lips together and clattering the teeth, but don't know for sure. I've never been able to find an explanation.  — kwami (talk) 08:22, 3 August 2014 (UTC)