Question

What are consonants ?

Answer 1

All the letters in the alphabet apart from A, E, I, O, and U (called vowels) are known as consonants. A consonant is a letter of the alphabet which represents a basic speech sound produced by obstructing the breath in the vocal tract. For example: T is pronounced using the tongue (front part)
Letters. The word consonant is also used to refer to a letter of an alphabet that denotes a consonant sound. The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y.