French has has the gutteral GG sound, as well as lots of nasal sounds, as does Portuguese, as well as many other languages like Navajo it turns out. Vowel nasality can be a difficult set of sounds to produce for people who never learned a nasal-heavy laguage, which is why we have so many French nasal word examples. French also mixes the nasal sound with uncommon vowel sounds such as a5a5 or e5e5.
Here are the 18 fundamental consonants used when speaking French.
For a complete list of possible consonants a human voice might make while speaking a natural language, check out the consonants page.
This language has labialized consonants.
| bilabial | labiodental | dental | alveolar | postalveolar | retroflex | velar | uvular | pharyngeal | glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| voiced nasal | |||||||||||
| voiced palatalized nasal | |||||||||||
| quiet plosive | |||||||||||
| voiced plosive | |||||||||||
| quiet sibilant fricative | |||||||||||
| voiced sibilant fricative | |||||||||||
| quiet non-sibilant fricative | |||||||||||
| voiced non-sibilant fricative | |||||||||||
| voiced lateral approximant |
These are the 17 base vowels used when speaking French. French is one of the languages which uses nasal vowels.
Also, a complete list of possible vowels a human voice might make while speaking can be found here.
| manner | front unrounded | front rounded | front central unrounded | front central rounded | central unrounded | central rounded | back central unrounded | back central rounded | back unrounded | back rounded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| close | |||||||||||
| close-mid | |||||||||||
| mid | |||||||||||
| open-mid | |||||||||||
| open-mid nasal | |||||||||||
| open | |||||||||||
| open nasal |