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.
Occurrence