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, 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, but it can be transcribed by adding an " extra short" diacritic to the symbol for the stop, .

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* * {{IPA navigation Epiglottal consonants Tap and flap consonants Pulmonic consonants Voiced oral consonants