The voiced epiglottal or pharyngeal tap or flap is not known to exist as a phoneme in any language. However, it exists as the intervocalic
voiced
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants). Speech sounds can be described as either voiceless (otherwise known as ''unvoiced'') or voiced.
The term, however, is used to refer ...
allophone of the otherwise voiceless
epiglottal stop
The epiglottal or pharyngeal plosive (or stop) is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
Epiglottal and pharyngeal consonants occur at the sa ...
of
Dahalo and perhaps of other languages.
It may also exist in
Iraqi Arabic
Mesopotamian Arabic, ( ar, لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين) also known as Iraqi Arabic ( ar, اللهجة العراقية), or Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic (as opposed to North Mesopotamian Arabic, Qeltu Mesopotamian Arabic) is a contin ...
, where the consonant ''
'ayn'' is too short to be an epiglottal stop, but has too much of a burst to be a fricative or approximant.
There is no dedicated symbol for this sound in the
IPA
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, but it can be transcribed by adding an "
extra short
The International Phonetic Alphabet uses a breve to indicate a speech sound (usually a vowel) with extra-short duration. That is, is a very short vowel with the quality of . An example from English is the short schwa of the word ''police'' . T ...
" diacritic to the symbol for the stop, .
Features
Occurrence
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Epiglottal consonants
Tap and flap consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Voiced oral consonants