The voiced epiglottal or pharyngeal tap or flap is not known to exist as a phoneme in any language. However, it exists as the intervocalic

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allophone of the otherwise voiceless

epiglottal stop The epiglottal or pharyngeal plosive (or stop) is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . Epiglottal and pharyngeal consonants occur at the sa ...

of Dahalo and perhaps of other languages. It may also exist in

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, where the consonant '' 'ayn'' is too short to be an epiglottal stop, but has too much of a burst to be a fricative or approximant. There is no dedicated symbol for this sound in the

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, but it can be transcribed by adding an "

extra short The International Phonetic Alphabet uses a breve to indicate a speech sound (usually a vowel) with extra-short duration. That is, is a very short vowel with the quality of . An example from English is the short schwa of the word ''police'' . T ...

" diacritic to the symbol for the stop, .

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Occurrence

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References

* * {{IPA navigation Epiglottal consonants Tap and flap consonants Pulmonic consonants Voiced oral consonants