Glottal
"Glottal" in a Sentence (8 examples)
A linguistics student swallowed her own tongue after attempting the legendary glottal approximant.
A glottal stop is a consonant articulated by closing and opening the glottis.
"Не-а" is possibly the only word in the Russian language in which a glottal stop is pronounced by most native speakers.
In Lojban, the dot "." is a pause or glottal stop.
In Biblical Hebrew the glottal stop was pronounced clearly, while in Modern Hebrew it's often ignored.
Glottal stops where you'd expect a "t" just have this effortless charm.
The Danish glottal stop is just the speaker's vocal cords giving up briefly in protest.
Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.
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