An 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 .
Esling (2010) describes the sounds 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.
Features
upright=0.6|thumb|class=skin-invert-image|[[Sagittal section of an epiglottal plosive]]
thumb|upright=0.6|The epiglottis is labelled as "12" in this diagram.|class=skin-invert-image
Features of an epiglottal stop:
- It has no defined phonation, although it is typically voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. Voiced epiglottal "stops" tend toward being epiglottal flaps.
Occurrence
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" | Language !! Word !! IPA !! Meaning !! Notes
|-
| colspan=2|Amis ||
| ||'fog'||May have a trilled release, .
|-
| colspan="2" | Archi|| / ||||'complaint'||
|-
| colspan="2" | Dahalo ||colspan="2" align="center" | ||'lake'||
|-
| Haida || Northern dialects || || ||'water'|| Corresponds to /q/ in southern dialects.
|-
| colspan="2" |Ingush
|/
|
|'lake, pond'
|
|}
See also
- Index of phonetics articles