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Emphatics meaning
plural of emphatic
Example sentences (4)
However, when his sources made it clear that there was some activity in the throat, he transcribed them as emphatics.
In Mombasa, it was common to use the Arabic emphatics for Cw, for example in صِصِ swiswi (standard sisi) 'we' and كِطَ kit̠wa (standard kichwa) 'head'.
Overlapping with the set of emphatics are the "guttural" consonants.
Some dialects have replaced emphatic consonants with non-emphatic counterparts, while those spoken in the Caucasus often have glottalized rather than pharyngealized emphatics.