meaning of sonant
1. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
2. Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc. , as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc. , which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.
3. A sonant letter.
4. a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
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