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Epiglottal consonant

An epiglottal consonant is a consonant that is articulated with the epiglottis against the back of the pharynx.

The epiglottal consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
Image:Xsampa-greaterthanslash.png epiglottal plosive
Image:Xsampa-lessthanslash.png voiced epiglottal fricative
Image:Xsampa-Hslash.png voiceless epiglottal fricative

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Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
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