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A pharyngeal consonant is a type of Consonant which is articulated with the root of the Tongue against the Pharynx . Pharyngeal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA):
Pharyngeals are known primarily from two areas of the world: in North-Africa/Mideast (in the Semitic , Berber , Cushitic , Circassian , and Dagestanian families) and in British Columbia (in the Wakashan and Salish families). There are scattered reports of pharyngeals elsewhere, such as in the Nilo-Saharan Tama Language and in Nenets in Siberia. In Finnish , a weak pharyngeal fricative is the realization of /h/ next to the vowel /a/, but since this is mere allophony, it is transcribed as /h/. Note that reported pharyngeals frequently turn out to be Epiglottals . Such was the case for Dahalo and northern Haida , for example, and is likely to be true for many if not most of the others. This is perhaps because 'epiglottal' was only recently recognized as a distinct place of articulation, rather than a variant of 'pharyngeal'. The only language known to have contrastive pharyngeals and epiglottals is Agul , a Lezgian Language of Dagestan. Recently, a possible new place of articulation, Epiglotto-pharyngeal , was reported. SEE ALSO |
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