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 . Esling (2010) describes the sound covered by the ter ...

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" diacritic to the symbol for the stop, .

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References

* * {{phonetics-stub Epiglottal consonants Tap and flap consonants Pulmonic consonants Voiced oral consonants