Consonant /n/ 
/n/ it is an alveolar nasal consonant. The front part of the tongue stops the air that comes from the lungs completely in the alveoli. The sound comes out through the nose. The vocal cords vibrate when producing /n/. It's 'voiced'. The most common writing patterns are 'n', 'nn', 'kn', 'gn','pn', and it is not pronounced in some words. Another very important feature is that this sound can form the nucleus of the syllable, the vocalic n /n̩/.
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 The English consonant /p/
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