Continuant
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A continuant is a sound produced with an incomplete closure of the vocal tract. That is, any sound except a stop (plosive or nasal). An affricate is considered to be both stop and continuant.
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- http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAContinuant.htm
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