Voiced Pharyngeal Fricative

The voiced pharyngeal approximant/fricative is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ?\.

Although traditionally placed in the fricative row of the IPA chart, is usually an Approximant . The IPA symbol itself is ambiguous, but no language has a distinct fricative and approximant at this place of articulation. Sometimes the lowering diacritic is used to specify that the manner is approximant, , or a raising diacritic may be used to show that it is fricative, .

FEATURES

Features of the voiced pharyngeal approximant/fricative:

Its Manner Of Articulation is Approximant , or occasionally Fricative , which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a channel at the place of articulation that is not usually narrow enough to cause Turbulence .

Its Place Of Articulation is Pharyngeal which means it is articulated with the root of the Tongue against the Pharynx .

Its Phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.

It is an Oral Consonant , which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.

Because it is pronounced in the throat, without a component in the mouth, the Central / Lateral dichotomy does not apply.

The Airstream Mechanism is Pulmonic Egressive , which means it is articulated by pushing air out of the Lung s and through the vocal tract, rather than from the Glottis or the mouth.

OCCURS IN

Danish has a pharyngeal approximant for ''r'' in normal speech. In distinct, old fashioned pronunciation, as on the stage, the Danish ''r'' may be a pharyngeal fricative.

This sound also occurs in Agul , a dialect of Burkixan .

Pharyngeal consonants are not widespread. Many languages claimed to have pharyngeal fricatives or approximants turn out on closer inspection to have Epiglottal Consonant s instead. For example, the candidate sound in Arabic and standard Hebrew (Israelis of European background generally pronounce this as a Glottal Stop ) has been variously described as a Voiced Epiglottal Fricative , an Epiglottal Approximant , or a Pharyngealized Glottal Stop .

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