"Emphatic consonant" is a somewhat imprecise term commonly used in Semiticlinguistics to describe pharyngealized or velarized, and ejectiveconsonants, or consonants that historically had one of these properties. It is also used, to a lesser extent, in describing the phonology of other Afro-Asiatic languages, notably Berber.
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