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Implosive consonant



         


Manners of articulation
Nasal consonant
Stop consonant
Fricative consonant
Lateral consonant
Approximant consonant
Semivowel
Liquid consonant
Flap consonant
Trill consonant
Ejective consonant
Implosive consonant
Click consonant


Implosive consonants are glottalic ingressive consonants, meaning that air is sucked into the lungs while pronouncing them rather than expelled out of the mouth as in pulmonic consonants. The vast majority of implosive consonants are voiced, and they are frequent among African languages.

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