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    The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that...
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    the voiced and voiceless glottal fricatives. The two glottal fricatives pattern like plosives. Features of the voiced glottal fricative: Its phonation...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiceless labial–velar fricative
    The voiceless labial–velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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  • contrasts voiceless and voiced glottal fricatives. The glottal stop occurs in many languages. Often all vocalic onsets are preceded by a glottal stop, for...
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    Ubykh, Tsakhur and Archi) pharyngealized voiceless glottal fricative [hˤ] (in Tsakhur) pharyngealized voiceless alveolar affricate [tsˤ] (in Chechen) pharyngealized...
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  • with consonants. For example, in the Athabaskan language Hupa, voiceless velar fricatives distinguish three degrees of labialization, transcribed either...
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  • H
    represent a long vowel, /ɛː/, still represented a similar sound, the voiceless glottal fricative /h/. In this context, the letter eta is also known as Heta to...
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    The voiceless uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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    The voiceless pharyngeal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...
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  • hē 𐡄, Syriac hē ܗ, and Arabic hāʾ ه. Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ([h]). The proto-Canaanite letter gave rise to the Greek Epsilon...
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