Stop

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A stop is a kind of consonant during which the flow of air through the mouth is entirely stopped. Thus the term can refer to nasals, though oral stops are usually meant.

Examples of oral stops: p, d, and ʔ

Examples of nasal stops: n, m, ŋ.

The most common stops across languages are m, t, k, and p.

ANADEW: Arabic and Hausa have no /p/. Rotokas has no /m/, Hawaiian has no /t/, and Pirahã has [m] only as an allophone of /b/, and [k] but possibly not /k/.