Strident — may refer to * strident vowels * strident consonants, a feature related to sibilant consonants, but also including labiodental and uvular fricatives … Wikipedia
Vowel — In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! IPA| [ɑː] or oh! IPA| [oʊ] , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build up of air pressure at any point above the glottis. This contrasts with consonants … Wikipedia
Trigraph (orthography) — A trigraph (from the Greek: τρεῖς, treîs, three and γράφω, gráphō, write ) is a group of three letters used to represent a single sound or a combination of sounds that does not correspond to the written letters combined. For example, in the word… … Wikipedia
Sibilant consonant — A sibilant is a type of fricative or affricate consonant, made by directing a jet of air through a narrow channel in the vocal tract towards the sharp edge of the teeth. The termThe term sibilant is often taken to be synonymous with the term… … Wikipedia
Phonation — has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics. Among some phoneticians, phonation is the process by which the vocal folds produce certain sounds through quasi periodic vibration. This is the definition used among those… … Wikipedia
Guttural — is a term used to describe any of several speech sounds whose primary place of articulation is near the back of the oral cavity. In some definitions this is restricted to pharyngeal consonants, but in others includes some but not all velar and… … Wikipedia
Trill consonant — In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the articulator and the place of articulation. Standard Spanish lt;rr gt; as in perro is an alveolar trill, while in Parisian French it is almost always uvular.Trills are … Wikipedia
Epiglottal trill — Epiglottal consonants are often allophonically trilled, and in some languages the trill is the primary realization of the consonant. Although there is no official symbol for an epiglottal trill in the IPA, я (reversed IPA|ʀ, homographic to… … Wikipedia
Aqh (trigraph) — Aqh is a trigraph in the practical orthography of the Taa language, where it represents the strident vowel IPA|/a/. (If this symbol does not display properly, it is an with a double tilde underneath.) … Wikipedia
Eqh (trigraph) — Eqh is a trigraph in the practical orthography of the Taa language, where it represents the strident vowel IPA|/e/. (If this symbol does not display properly, it is an with a double tilde underneath.) … Wikipedia
