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  2. Guttural - Wikipedia

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    Guttural speech sounds are those with a primary place of articulation near the back of the oral cavity, where it is difficult to distinguish a sound's place of articulation and its phonation. In popular usage it is an imprecise term for sounds produced relatively far back in the vocal tract, such as the German ch or the Arabic ayin , but not ...

  3. Laryngeal consonant - Wikipedia

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    Laryngeal consonants (a term often used interchangeably with guttural consonants) are consonants with their primary articulation in the general region of the larynx.The laryngeal consonants comprise the pharyngeal consonants (including the epiglottals), the glottal consonants, [1] [2] and for some languages uvular consonants.

  4. Category:Guttural consonants - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Guttural consonants" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  5. Guttural R - Wikipedia

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    Guttural realization of /r/ is mostly considered a speech defect in Italian (cf. rotacismo), but the so-called r moscia ('limp' or 'lifeless r', an umbrella term for realizations of /r/ considered defective), which is sometimes uvular, is quite common in areas of Northwest Italy, i.e. Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna.

  6. Growling - Wikipedia

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    Growling is a low, guttural vocalization produced by animals as an aggressive warning but can also be found in other contexts such as playful behaviors or mating. Different animals will use growling in specific contexts as a form of communication.

  7. Voiced uvular trill - Wikipedia

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    Tendency to be replaced by fricative pronunciations. In coda position, it is generally in free variation with , , , and before non-voicing environments. Sulista [28] repolho [ʀe̞ˈpoʎ̟ʊ] 'cabbage' Alternates with the alveolar trill and depending on the region. Never used in coda. Romani: Some dialects rrom [ʀom] 'man'

  8. Throat singing - Wikipedia

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    The term originates from the translation of the Tuvan word Xhöömei and the Mongolian word Xhöömi, which mean throat and guttural, respectively. [10] Ethnic groups from Russia, Mongolia, Japan, South Africa, Canada, Italy, China and India, among other countries, accept and normally employ the term throat singing to describe their way of producing voice, song and music.

  9. Voiced velar fricative - Wikipedia

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    Usually it is uttered as guttural R at initial and medial position of a word. See Malay phonology: Terengganu: Negeri Sembilan [ɣamai̯] Pahang [ɣamɛ̃ː] Sarawak [ɣamɛː] Macedonian: Berovo accent: дувна /duvna [ˈduɣna] 'it blew' Corresponds to etymological /x/ of other dialects, before sonorants.