Vibrant consonant

Manners of articulation
Obstruent     Stop     Affricate     Fricative         Strident             Sibilant Sonorant     Nasal     Approximant         Semivowel     Vowel     Vibrant         Flap/tap         Trill Liquid     Rhotic     Lateral Occlusive Continuant
Airstreams
Egressive Ingressive Ejective Implosive Lingual (clicks) Linguo-pulmonic Linguo-ejective Percussive
See also
Articulatory phonetics Aspirated consonant No audible release Phonation Place of articulation Voice Voicelessness

In phonetics, a vibrant is a class of consonant including taps and trills (a trill is, "sometimes referred to as a vibrant consonant."). Spanish has two vibrants, /r/ and /ɾ/.

The term is sometimes used when it is not clear whether the rhotic (r-sound) in a language is a tap or a trill.

See also

• Lateral consonant
• Liquid consonant