====== Placement ====== Listed with preference to original pronunciation over modern, and categorized by their **primary** place of articulation, with double letters categorized in their weak aspirated form: ==== Group A — Throat (4) ==== //See [[gutturals]]// [[glottal]] (**voiceless**: [[alef|ALEF]], [[heh]]) [[pharyngeal]] (**voiceless**: [[khet]], **voiced**: [[eyin]]) ==== Group C — Palate (4) ==== [[uvular]] (**voiceless**: [[qof]]) [[velar]] (**voiceless**: [[kaf]], **voiced:** [[gimel]]) [[palatal]] (**voiced**: [[yod]]) ==== Group E — Teeth/Gums (6) ==== [[postalveolar]] (**voiceless**: [[shin|SHIN]]) [[alveolar]] (**voiceless**: [[samek]], [[tsadi]], **voiced**: [[zeyin]], [[resh]], [[nun]]*) * nun is sometimes classified as a post-[[dental]] (next group) ==== Group D — Tongue (4) ==== [[lateral]] (**voiced**: [[lamed]]) post-[[dental]] (**voiceless**: [[tet]] as /t/, [[tav]] as /θ/, **voiced**: [[dalet]] as /ð/) ==== Group B — Lips (4) ==== [[labiodental]] (**voiceless**: [[peh]] as /f/, **voiced**: [[bet]] as /v/) [[labial]] (**voiced**: [[vav]] as /w/, [[mem|MEM]])