Glottal in a sentence

A glottal stop is made during the hold of the click; the (necessarily voiceless) click is released, and then the glottal hold is released into the vowel.

Ogulu is more vulnerable on “Cheat on Me” feat Dave whose British glottal stops add a grimy punctuation to the pace.

It's called a glottal stop.

Additionally, some other languages and variants, such as Haitian Creole and Timorese Portuguese use velar and glottal fricatives instead of traditional rhotics, too.

Akkadian lost both the glottal and pharyngeal fricatives, which are characteristic of the other Semitic languages.

Few languages make a phonemic distinction between a word beginning with a vowel and a word beginning with a glottal stop followed by a vowel, since the distinction will generally only be audible following another word.

For example, a glottal stop does not occur in other situations in German, e.g. before a consonant or at the end of word.

For example, standard German (excluding many southern accents) and Arabic both require that a glottal stop be inserted between a word and a following, putatively vowel-initial word.

Furthermore, an apostrophe may be used to indicate a glottal stop in transliterations.

However, in Semitic languages they do appear to be true glottal consonants.

However, this glottal stop undergoes sandhi whenever followed by consonant, or more often than not (see below).

In other cases, however, it may be the word 'plosive' that is restricted to the glottal stop.

In some cases, the pronunciation of a (putatively) vowel-initial word when following another word – particularly, whether or not a glottal stop is inserted – indicates whether the word should be considered to have a null onset.

In that model, murmur is a point in a continuum of glottal aperture between modal voice and breath phonation (voicelessness).

On the other hand, in Arabic, not only does a glottal stop occur in such situations (e.g. Classical /saʔala/ "he asked", /raʔj/ "opinion", /dˤawʔ/ "light"), but it occurs in alternations that are clearly indicative of its phonemic status (cf.

Some example of dialectal differences are: * Many Tagalog dialects, particularly those in the south, preserve the glottal stop found after consonants and before vowels.

Sound production involving only the glottis is called glottal.

Tagalog homonyms are often distinguished in meaning from one another by the position of the stress and presence of the glottal stop.

The glottalized stops /ʔb ʔd/ were unaffected, as they were treated in every respect like voiceless unaspirated stops due to the initial glottal stop.

The Hawaiian spelling indicates the two glottal stops in the word, but the English pronunciation, main or main, contains at most one.