Everything about Glottal Consonant totally explained
Glottal consonants are
consonants articulated with the
glottis. Many phoneticians consider them, or at least the so-called fricatives, to be transitional states of the glottis without a point of articulation as other consonants have; in fact, some don't consider them to be consonants at all. However, the glottal stop at least behaves as a typical consonant in languages such as
Tsou.
Glottal consonants in the
International Phonetic Alphabet:
The "fricatives" are not true fricatives. This is a historical usage of the word. They instead represent transitional states of the glottis (
phonation) without a specific place of articulation. [h] is a voiceless transition. [ɦ] is a
breathy-voiced transition, and could be transcribed as [h̤].
The
glottal stop occurs in many languages. Often all vocalic onsets are preceded by a
glottal stop, for example in
German. The
Hawaiian language writes the
glottal stop as an opening single quote
‘. Some alphabets use
diacritics for the
glottal stop, such as hamza <
ء> in the
Arabic alphabet; in many languages of
Mesoamerica, the Latin letter
is used for glottal stop.
Because the glottis is necessarily closed for the glottal stop, it can't be voiced.
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