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Glottal consonant - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Affirmative, Allophone, Alveolar, Apical, Articulation, Aspiration, Assimilated, Assimilation, Automatic, Back, Balanced, Bilabial
Places of articulation
Labial consonant
Bilabial consonant
Labiodental consonant
Linguolabial consonant
Coronal consonant
Interdental consonant
Dental consonant
Retroflex consonant
Alveolar consonant
Postalveolar consonant
Alveolo-palatal consonant
Dorsal consonant
Palatal consonant
Labial-palatal consonant 
Velar consonant
Labial-velar consonant
Uvular consonant
Pharyngeal consonant
Epiglottal consonant
Glottal consonant
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Glottal consonants are consonants articulated with the glottis.

Glottal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
Image:Xsampa-questionmark.png voicless glottal stop Hawai‘ian ‘okina [ʔo.ˈki.na] ‘okina
Image:Xsampa-hslash.png voiced glottal fricative Czech Praha [pra.ɦa] Prague
Image:Xsampa-h.png voiceless glottal fricative English hat [hæt] hat


Note:

  • The glottal stop occurs in many languages. Often, all vocal attacks are preceded by a voiceless glottal stop, for exemple in German. The French language distinguishes between the letter H normally not pronounced – also with "liaison" – and the glottal stop letter H, like in the word "les héros" (don't pronounce "les zéros"). The Hawaiian language writes the glottal stop as an opening single quote ‘. Some languages like the Arabic have a dedicated letter (called "Hamza") for the glottal stop consonant. For more details on this topic, see: Glottal stop.


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