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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 ...
Schleicher's single guttural row [ edit ] August Schleicher , an early Indo-Europeanist, in Part I, "Phonology", of his major work, the 1871 Compendium of Comparative Grammar of the Indogermanic Language , published a table of original momentane Laute , or "stops", which has only a single velar row, *k, *g, *gʰ, under the name of Gutturalen .
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.
May be pronounced as a normal double l. Sometimes, the guttural r is present in words starting with g in some dialects. Aleut: Atkan dialect: chamĝul [tʃɑmʁul] 'to wash' Arabic: Modern Standard [6] غرفة ġurfa [ˈʁʊrfɐ] 'room' Mostly transcribed as /ɣ/, may be velar, post-velar or uvular, depending on dialect. [7] See Arabic ...
There are two main theories regarding the origination of the uvular trill in European languages. According to one theory, the uvular trill originated in Standard French around the 17th century and spread to the standard varieties of German, Danish, Portuguese, and some of those of Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish.
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.
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.
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