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Ingressive
Ingressive meaning
Going or directed inward, entering. | Open to entry or examination. | Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
Example sentences (4)
Some languages have stops made with other mechanisms as well: ejective stops ( glottalic egressive ), implosive stops ( glottalic ingressive ), or click consonants ( lingual ingressive ).
The airstream The essence of a click is a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism.
The enclosed pocket of air is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (in technical terminology, clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism ).
This is an example of a rare pulmonic ingressive phone.