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Features of this consonant:

• Its manner of articulation is approximant, which means it is produced by bringing one articulator close to another but without the vocal tract being narrowed to such an extent that a turbulent airstream is produced.
• Its place of articulation is palatal which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the tongue raised against the hard palate.
• Its phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.
• It is an oral consonantAn oral consonant is a consonant sound in speech that is made by allowing air to escape from the mouth. To create an intended oral consonant sound, the entire mouth plays a role in modifying the air's passageway. This rapid modification of the air passage, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
• It is a central consonantA central or medial consonant is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. Examples of central consonants are the voiceless velar plosive (the "k" in the English word "skin"), the voiced alveolar fri, which means it is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the center of the tongue, rather than the sides.
• The airstream mechanism is pulmonic egressive, which means it is articulated by pushing air out of the lungThe lung is an organ belonging to the respiratory system and interfacing to the circulatory system of air-breathing vertebrates. Its function is to exchange oxygen from air with carbon dioxide from blood. The process in which this happens is called " extes and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottisThe space between the vocal cords is called the glottis . As the vocal cords vibrate, the resulting vibration produces a "buzzing" quality to the speech, called voice or voicing . Sounds production involving only the glottis is called glottal''. English h or the mouth.