epiglottal

The epiglottal stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

An epiglottal flap is not known to exist as a phoneme in any language.

A voiced epiglottal stop may not be possible.

Further information can be found under epiglottal consonant.

The pharyngealization itself is reported to be epiglottal.

However, no language makes such sounds consistently, and most so-called pharyngeal stops are more precisely epiglottal.

This phoneme is more often epiglottal and functions phonologically as a pharyngeal stop.

When the epiglottal co-articulation becomes a trill, the vowels are called strident.

One other trill has been reported as a consonant, an epiglottal trill.

However, often changes in adjoining vowels testify to the former presence of a pharyngeal or epiglottal articulation.

There are also so-called strident vowels which are accompanied by epiglottal trill.

Plantenga's attempt to redefine yodeling is a project he likes to think of as "epiglottal revisionism."

Features of the epiglottal stop:

These include pharyngeal and epiglottal consonants.

When an epiglottal stop becomes voiced intervocalically in Dahalo, for example, it becomes a tap.

The epiglottal consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

Aghul has contrastive epiglottal consonants.

In addition to the occurrence of this sound as a consonant, strident vowels are defined by an accompanying epiglottal trill.

Some speakers produce /ħ/ with epiglottal trilling.

Epiglottal consonants are often allophonically trilled, and in some languages the trill is the primary realization of the consonant.

There is a sometimes fuzzy line between glottal, aryepiglottal, and epiglottal consonants and phonation, which uses these same areas.

Note that the epiglottals are traditionally called 'pharyngeal', with the epiglottal articulation subsumed under pharyngeal.

(The crocodile relies on its epiglottal flap, located deep within its throat, to regulate the amount of water that it swallows.

Many languages claiming to have pharyngeal fricatives or approximants turn out on closer inspection to have epiglottal consonants instead.

Voiced epiglottal "stops" tend toward being epiglottal flaps.