The voiceless epiglottal or pharyngeal trill, or voiceless epiglottal fricative,
[John Esling (2010) "Phonetic Notation", in Hardcastle, Laver & Gibbon (eds) ''The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences'', 2nd ed., p 695.] is a type of
consonant
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al sound, used in some
spoken language
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s. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA
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symbol is
H\.
The glyph is
homoglyphic with the lowercase
Cyrillic letter
En (н).
Features
Features of the voiceless epiglottal trill/fricative:
Occurrence
See also
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Index of phonetics articles
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References
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Trill consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Voiceless oral consonants