The creaky-voiced glottal approximant is a consonant sound in some languages. In the IPA, it is transcribed as or . It involves tension in the glottis and diminution of airflow, compared to surrounding vowels, but not full occlusion.
Features
Features of the creaky-voiced glottal approximant
*Its phonation is
creaky-voiced
Occurrence
It is an intervocalic allophone of a
glottal stop
The glottal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents thi ...
in many languages. It is reported to be contrastive only in
Gimi in which it is phonologically the voiced equivalent of the glottal stop .
See also
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Voiced glottal fricative
The voiced glottal fricative, sometimes called breathy-voiced glottal transition, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant ''phonologically'', but often lacks the usual ''phonetic ...
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Glottal consonants
Approximant consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Voiced oral consonants