glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants articulated with the glottis. Glottal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet:

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style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|voicless glottal stop	style="border:1px solid black"\|Hawaiian	style="border:1px solid black"\|okina	style="border:1px solid black"\|[]	style="border:1px solid black"\|okina
style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|voiced glottal fricative	style="border:1px solid black"\|Czech	style="border:1px solid black"\|Praha	style="border:1px solid black"\|[]	style="border:1px solid black"\|Prague
style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|voiceless glottal fricative	style="border:1px solid black"\|English	style="border:1px solid black"\|hat	style="border:1px solid black"\|[]	style="border:1px solid black"\|hat

Note:

The glottal stop occurs in many languages. Often, all vocal attacks are preceded by a voiceless glottal stop, for exemple in German. The French language distinguishes between the letter H normally not pronounced – also with "liaison" – and the glottal stop letter H, like in the word "les hros" (don't pronounce "les 'zros")''. The Hawaiian language writes the glottal stop as an opening single quote '. Some languages like the Arabic have a dedicated letter (called "Hamza")'' for the glottal stop consonant. For more details on this topic, see: Glottal stop.

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