Epiglottal plosive

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 ʡ.

Epiglottal plosive
(pharyngeal plosive)
ʡ
IPA Number173
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ʡ
Unicode (hex)U+02A1
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Epiglottal and pharyngeal consonants occur at the same place of articulation. Esling (2010) describes the sound covered by the term "epiglottal plosive" as an "active closure by the aryepiglottic pharyngeal stricture mechanism" that is, a stop produced by the aryepiglottic folds within the pharynx.[1]

Features

The epiglottis is labelled as "12" in this diagram.

Features of the epiglottal stop:

  • It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
  • It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.

Occurrence

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Amis'u'ure [ʡuʡuɺ̠ᵊ]'fog'May have a trilled release, ʢ].
ArchiгӀарз/g'arz[ʡarz]'complaint'
Dahalo[2][ndoːʡo]'floor'
HaidaNorthern dialectsantl[ʡʌntɬ]'water'Corresponds to /q/ in southern dialects.

See also

Notes

  1. John Esling (2010) "Phonetic Notation", in Hardcastle, Laver & Gibbon (eds) The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, 2nd ed., p 695.
  2. Maddieson et al. (1993:27, 30, 33)

References

  • Maddieson, Ian; Spajić, Siniša; Sands, Bonny; Ladefoged, Peter (1993), "Phonetic structures of Dahalo", in Maddieson, Ian (ed.), UCLA working papers in phonetics: Fieldwork studies of targeted languages, 84, Los Angeles: The UCLA Phonetics Laboratory Group, pp. 25–65
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