In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.Examples are [p] and [b], pronounced with the lips; [t] and [d], pronounced with the front of the tongue; [k] and [g], pronounced with the back of the tongue; [h], pronounced in the throat; [f], [v], and [s], pronounced by forcing air through a narrow channel (); …

In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel.In English, for example, the groups /spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word splits.In the education field it is variously called a consonant cluster or a consonant blend.. Some linguists [who?] argue that the term can be properly …