Pulmonic consonants
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The pulmonic consonants are those consonants produced with a pulmonic (egressive) airstream - they are made with air being pushed out from the lungs.
All of the consonants of English are pulmonic consonants. Most languages use only pulmonic consonants; non-pulmonic consonants are used in only 18% of the world's languages (not always contrastively). [1]
