Places of articulation

Diagram of the places of articulation

Green underlined words are links to definitions.

The active[1] articulator in all these places of articulation is some part of the tongue, except for bilabials and labiodentals (whose active articulator is the lower lip) and glottals (which have just one articulator, the glottis).

See also:

Diagram: The principal organs of articulation
Diagram: Phonetic symbols for consonants
Diagram: Phonetic symbols for vowels
Materiales para la enseñanza de la fonética general (website of SIL International, in Spanish)
Online Phonetics Course (website of the Linguistics Department, University of Lausanne)

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