epiglottal consonant

An epiglottal consonant is a consonant that is articulated with the epiglottis against the back of the pharynx. The epiglottal consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

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style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|epiglottal plosive	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|
style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|voiced epiglottal fricative	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|
style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|voiceless epiglottal fricative	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|

See also