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 .
See also
*
Voiced glottal fricative
The voiced glottal fricative, sometimes called breathy-voiced glottal transition, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant '' phonologically'', but often lacks the usual ''phoneti ...
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Glottal consonants
Approximant consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Voiced oral consonants