In sequence, these categories are&colon; velar, palatal, retroflex, dental, labial, sonorant and fricative. Alternatively, the voiceless sonorants can be analyzed as clusters of and a voiced sonorant&colon; . English has the following sonorant consonantal phonemes&colon; . The voiceless sonorant often marks object incorporation. Partial to full devoicing of the sonorant is probably the norm for most speakers. More characteristic of Italic are the interactions of laryngeals with sonorant consonants. As a sonorant, lateral approximants are nearly always voiced. In every case of a voiceless sonorant occurring, there is a contrasting voiced sonorant. Here, R represents a sonorant, and C a consonant. Long vowels are rarely followed by a sonorant in the same syllable. High tone syllables are usually heavy (having a long vowel or ending in a sonorant). This includes the so-called "mixed diphthongs", composed of a short vowel followed by a sonorant. If a sonorant followed a dental sequence, one of the dentals was deleted. There were also and , making 16 sonorant phonemes in total.