Man-Made Sounds

The human being has the quality of producing a series of sounds, man-made sounds, we can separate them into two categories, which are:

• Sounds through your mouth
• Sounds through your body

Sounds produced by the mouth:

The sounds produced by the mouth produce the sounds used to achieve speech, these are called by some experts as phonic sounds or sounds produced by the human speech apparatus.

These can be sub-classified into five:

1. Alveolar Sounds
2. Bilabial sounds
3. Dental Sounds
4. Labiodental sounds
5. Palatal sounds
6. Velar sounds

These sounds are what make up phonetics, which is the branch that studies the sounds of spoken language.

1.- Bilabial sounds.- These are those that are produced by the lips, examples are the p, the b and the m.

2.- Labiodental sounds.- These are the sounds that are formed with the upper teeth and the lower lip, what happens with the letter F.

3.- Dental sounds.- These sounds are formed by placing the tip of the tongue on the back of the upper teeth, as with the d Y t.

4.- Alveolar sounds.- This is the sound that occurs in the front section of the tongue and the alveoli, which can be observed in the letters

s, n, l Y r.

5.- Palatal sounds.- These sounds are produced when the tongue is placed resting on the middle-anterior part of the palate, as we see in the letters c, Y (ye), ll (lla) and ñ.

6.- Velar Sounds.- These sounds are produced when the back of the tongue is placed on the palate, the sounds produced are the k and the g.

These are subdivided into another category, which implies the form and mode of articulation:

1. Afrikaans
2. Fricatives
3. Side
4. Nasal
5. Occlusives
6. Vibrant

Sounds through the body:

These sounds cover all the common sounds, and we will separate them to find some of them in the following list:

1. Applause
2. Kisses
3. Yawning
4. Singing etc.
5. Finger snapping
6. Swallowing
7. Belching
8. Sneezing
9. Exclamations
10. Screams
11. Speaks
12. Crying
13. Chewed
14. Breathing
15. Laughs
16. Snoring
17. Whistles
18. Blow your nose
19. Puffs
20. Whispers
21. Toz