Sonorant Consonants

Sonorant consonants are consonants that are pronounced with little or no obstructing the airflow. When pronouncing a sonorant consonant, the place of articulation only adjusts the quality of the sound while the vocal cords make the sound. Nasals and approximants are sonorant consonants, but flaps and trills are sonorants too although they are rougher (vibrants). Unlike obstruent consonants, sonorant consonants have only a voiced form.

Although it's forbidden in Orish, sonorants are likely to be syllabic when there is no vowel before or after them. To prevent sonorant consonants from being syllabic when there is no vowel before or after them, the schwa (Ə) comes before or after them and prevents the syllable that was created by a sonorant consonant from having no vowel. However, semivowels that there is no vowel before or after them are neutralized into their normal, syllabic vowel counterparts.

Sonorant Consonants in Orish
In Orish, semivowels are classified separately from sonorant consonants because of their similarity to vowels.
 * M - represents the bilabial nasal.
 * N - represents the alveolar nasal.
 * L - represents the alveolar lateral approximant.
 * R - represents the rhotic phoneme, some of its allophones are voiced fricatives, but it's still classified as a sonorant consonant, because most of its allophones are sonorants (trills, flaps and approximants), and they depend on the accent.