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Glottal consonants are Consonant s articulated with the Glottis . Many phoneticians consider them, or at least the so-called fricatives, to be transitional states of the glottis without a point of articulation as other consonants have; in fact, some do not consider them to be consonants at all. However, the glottal stop at least behaves as a typical consonant in languages such as Tsou . Glottal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet : The "fricatives" are not true fricatives. This is a historical usage of the word. They instead represent transitional states of the glottis ( Phonation ) without a specific place of articulation. is a voiceless transition. is a Breathy-voiced transition, and could be transcribed as . The ''glottal stop'' occurs in many languages. Often all vocalic onsets are preceded by a glottal stop, for example in German . The Hawaiian Language writes the glottal stop as an opening single quote ‘. Some alphabets use Diacritics for the glottal stop, such as hamza <'''ء'''> in the Arabic Alphabet ; in many languages of Mesoamerica , the Latin letter Because the glottis is necessarily closed for the glottal stop, it cannot be voiced. SEE ALSO |