Template:Voiced and unvoiced sounds

Description
First let’s identify some “voiced” sounds. Put your fingers on your throat and say the words You should feel some vibration in your throat at the end of these words.

Enumeration
Voiced sounds can be described or memorized. For some people memorization is easier than description or deduction.

The voiced sounds in English are all vowels and /b/, /d/, /ð/, /dʒ/, /g/, /j/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, /r/, /v/, /w/, /z/ and /ʒ/.

Description
Now some “unvoiced” sounds. Say  You should feel no vibration in your throat at the end of these words.

Enumeration
Voiceless sounds can be described or memorized. For some people memorization is easier than description or deduction.

The voiceless sounds in English are /f/, /k/, /p/, /s/, /ʃ/, /t/, /tʃ/ and /θ/.