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The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, [1] [2] is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant.
The voiceless epiglottal or pharyngeal trill, or voiceless epiglottal fricative, [1] is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʜ , a small capital version of the Latin letter h, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is H\.
The voiced glottal fricative, sometimes called breathy-voiced glottal transition, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant.
A few languages have ejective fricatives. In some dialects of Hausa, the standard affricate [tsʼ] is a fricative [sʼ]; Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian, now extinct) had an ejective lateral fricative [ɬʼ]; and the related Kabardian also has ejective labiodental and alveolopalatal fricatives, [fʼ], [ʃʼ], and [ɬʼ].
H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound", [h].The phenomenon is common in many dialects of English, and is also found in certain other languages, either as a purely historical development or as a contemporary difference between dialects.
lab zd voiceless pharyngeal fricative [ħʷ] ⓘ Abaza, Abkhaz lab zd voiced pharyngeal fricative [ʕʷ] ⓘ Abaza, Lillooet Pseudo-fricatives lab zd voiceless glottal fricative [hʷ] ⓘ Akan, Tlingit, Tsakhur Lateral fricatives lab zd voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬʷ] ⓘ Dahalo lab zd voiceless velar lateral fricative [ʟ̝̊ʷ ...
The voiced uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʁ , an inverted small uppercase letter ʀ , or in broad transcription r if rhotic .
Among widespread speech sounds in the world's languages, the upper pharynx produces a voiceless fricative and a voiced sound that ranges from fricative to (more commonly) approximant, . The epiglottal region produces the plosive as well as sounds that range from fricative to trill, and . Because the latter are most often trilled and rarely ...