ABSTRACT
The way in which the airstream is modified during the articulation of a consonant: either (oral or nasal) stop, fricative (both median and lateral), affricate, approximant (both median and lateral), flap, or trill. ( also articulatory phonetics)
Indo-Aryan language with approx. 45 million speakers, heavily influenced by the Dravidian languages (Kannada, Telugu).
