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The voiced upper-pharyngeal plosive or stop is a rare consonant. Pharyngeal consonants are typically pronounced at two regions of the pharynx , upper and lower. The lower region is epiglottal , so the upper region is often abbreviated as merely 'pharyngeal'.
In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases. The occlusion may be made with the tongue tip or blade ( [ t ] , [ d ] ), tongue body ( [ k ] , [ ɡ ] ), lips ( [ p ] , [ b ] ), or glottis ( [ ʔ ] ).
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.
Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet, the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a plosive. Its place of articulation is bilabial, which means it is articulated with both lips. It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
In many Polynesian languages that use the Latin alphabet, however, the glottal stop is written with a rotated apostrophe, ʻ (called ʻokina in Hawaiian and Samoan), which is commonly used to transcribe the Arabic ayin as well (also ʽ ) and is the source of the IPA character for the voiced pharyngeal fricative ʕ .
Features of the voiced bilabial implosive: Its manner of articulation is occlusive , which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet , the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a plosive .
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A voiced velopharyngeal fricative [ʩ̬] A velopharyngeal fricative trill or "snort" (much as epiglottal fricatives tend to be trilled): voiceless [𝼀] voiced [𝼀̬] Other consonants accompanied by velopharyngeal frication, such as [s͌] = [s𐞐], [5] potentially transcribed with an additional 𐞪 to overtly indicate accompanying trill.