The epiglottal or pharyngeal ejective is a rare type of
consonant
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al sound, used in some spoken
language
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s. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is .
Features
Features of the pharyngeal ejective:
Occurrence
A pharyngeal ejective has been reported in
Dargwa, a
Northeast Caucasian language
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.
See also
*
List of phonetics topics
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar ejective ...
References
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Ejectives
Epiglottal consonants
Oral consonants
Central consonants