Creaky-voiced glottal approximant
A creaky-voiced glottal approximant is a consonant sound in some languages. It involves tension in the glottis and diminution of airflow, compared to surrounding vowels, but not full occlusion.
It is a common phonetic realization of a glottal stop, especially intervocalically, but is only rarely contrastive except when gemination is involved.
There is no symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet dedicated to this sound, but the extIPA pre-/post-creak diacritic can be used. One source has used the transcription, and another has used ; however, neither are physically possible, and the sources quote, who use the IPA wildcard in their transcription.
Features
Features of a creaky-voiced glottal approximant:- Its phonation is creaky-voiced.