The creaky-voiced glottal approximant is a consonant sound in some languages. In the IPA, it is transcribed as or . It involves tension in the glottis and diminution of airflow, compared to surrounding vowels, but not full occlusion.

Features

Features of the creaky-voiced glottal approximant *Its phonation is creaky-voiced

Occurrence

It is an intervocalic allophone of a glottal stop in many languages. It is reported to be contrastive only in Gimi in which it is phonologically the voiced equivalent of the glottal stop .

References

{{IPA navigation Glottal consonants Approximant consonants Pulmonic consonants Voiced oral consonants

Features

Occurrence

See also

References