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Approximants na speech sounds wey involve di articulators wey dey approach each other but e no dey narrow enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow. Therefore, approximants dey fall between fricatives, wey dey produce turbulent airstream, and vowels, wey no produce turbulence. Dis class of sounds include lateral approximants like (as in "less"), non-lateral approximants like (as in "rest"), and semivowels like and (as in "yes" and "west", respectively). 

Before Peter Ladefoged come up with di term "approximant" for di 1960s, di term "frictionless continuant" dey refer to non-lateral approximants. 

Some approximants resemble vowels for acoustic and articulatory properties and di terms "semivowel" and "glide" dey often use for dis non-syllabic vowel-like segments. Di correlation between semivowels and vowels strong well well so cross-language differences between semivowels dey correspond with di differences between their related vowels. 

Vowels and their corresponding semivowels dey change for many languages depending on di phonological environment, or for grammatical reasons, as e dey happen for Indo-European ablaut. Similarly, languages dey often avoid configurations where a semivowel dey come before its corresponding vowel. A number of phoneticians dey distinguish between semivowels and approximants by their location for a syllable. Although he dey use di terms interchangeably, remarks say, for example, di final glides of English "par" and "buy" dey different from French "par" ('through') and "baille" ('tub') for di sense say, for di latter pair, di approximants dey appear for di syllable coda, whereas, for di former, dem dey appear for di syllable nucleus. Dis one mean say opaque (if not minimal) contrasts fit happen for languages like Italian (with di i-like sound of "piede" 'foot', wey dey appear for di nucleus: , and that of "piano" 'slow', wey dey appear for di syllable onset: ) and Spanish (with a near minimal pair being "abyecto" 'abject' and "abierto" 'opened').

1. Who come up with di term approximant?
2. When?
3. Wetin dem dey use before dat?
4. Wetin e represent?
5. Dem be fricatives?
6. Wetin speech sound wey no dey make turbulence?
7. Wetin languages dey frequently avoid?
8. Wetin location within a syllable help distinguish?
9. Italian fit get opaque contrasts?
10. Wetin about Spanish?

Numbered answers:``` <response>: ```1. Peter Ladefoged
2. for di 1960s,
3. frictionless continuant
4. speech sounds wey involve di articulators wey dey approach each oda but no dey narrow reach or get enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow
5. no
6. vowels
7. dem dey avoid configurations wey semivowel dey come before im corresponding vowel
8. semivowels and approximants
9. yes
10. yes``` 