Voiceless glottal fricative
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The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition, and sometimes called the aspirate,[1][2] is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is Template:Angle bracket, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is h
, although [h] has been described as a voiceless vowel because in many languages, it lacks the place and manner of articulation of a prototypical consonant as well as the height and backness of a prototypical vowel:
Lamé contrasts voiceless and voiced glottal fricatives.[3]
Features
Features of the "voiceless glottal fricative":
- In some languages, it has the constricted manner of articulation of a fricative. However, in many if not most it is a transitional state of the glottis, with no manner of articulation other than its phonation type. Because there is no other constriction to produce friction in the vocal tract in the languages they are familiar with, many phoneticiansTemplate:Who no longer consider [h] to be a fricative. However, the term "fricative" is generally retained for historical reasons.
- It may have a glottal place of articulation. However, it may have no fricative articulation, in which case the term 'glottal' only refers to the nature of its phonation, and does not describe the location of the stricture nor the turbulence. All consonants except for the glottals, and all vowels, have an individual place of articulation in addition to the state of the glottis. As with all other consonants, surrounding vowels influence the pronunciation [h], and [h] has sometimes been presented as a voiceless vowel, having the place of articulation of these surrounding vowels.
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Occurrence
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Adyghe | Shapsug | lang}} | [həɡʲ] | 'now' | Corresponds to [x] in other dialects. |
Albanian | lang}} | [hiɾɛ]Template:Fix | 'the graces' | ||
Arabic | Modern Standard[4] | lang}} | [ˈhaːʔɪl] | 'enormous' | See Arabic phonology |
Armenian | Eastern[5] | lang}} | Template:Audio-IPA | 'Armenian' | |
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic | lang}} | [hajmaːnuːtʰa] | 'faith' | ||
Asturian | lang}} | [ˈɣwahe̞] | 'child' | Mainly present in eastern dialects. | |
Avar | lang}} | [ha] | 'oath' | ||
Basque | North-Eastern dialects[6] | lang}} | [hiɾur] | 'three' | Can be voiced Template:IPAblink instead. |
Bengali | lang}} | [hao̯a] | 'wind' | ||
Berber | lang}} | [ahərkus] | 'shoe' | ||
Chechen | lang}} / {{#invoke:lang|lang}} | [hɑrɐ] | 'this' | ||
Chinese | Cantonese | lang}} / {{#invoke:lang|lang}} | Template:Audio-IPA | 'sea' | See Cantonese phonology |
Mandarin | lang}} / {{#invoke:lang|lang}} | Template:Audio-IPA | Can be a velar fricative [x] for some speakers. See Standard Chinese phonology | ||
Danish[3] | lang}} | [ˈhuːˀs] | 'house' | Often voiced Template:IPAblink when between vowels.[3] See Danish phonology | |
English | high | [haɪ̯] | 'high' | See English phonology and H-dropping | |
Esperanto | lang}} | [hejmo] | 'home' | See Esperanto phonology | |
Eastern Lombard | Val Camonica | lang}} | [brɛhɔ] | 'Brescia' | Corresponds to /s/ in other varieties. |
Estonian | lang}} | [hɑmˑɑs] | 'tooth' | See Estonian phonology | |
Faroese | lang}} | [hoːn] | 'she' | ||
Finnish | lang}} | [hɑmːɑs] | 'tooth' | See Finnish phonology | |
French | Belgian | lang}} | [ˈhɔt] | 'pannier' | Found in the region of Liège. See French phonology |
Georgian[7] | lang}} | [hɑvɑ] | 'climate' | ||
German[8] | lang}} | [has] | 'hatred' | See Standard German phonology | |
Greek | Cypriot[9] | lang}} | [mahaˈzi] | 'shop' | Allophone of /x/ before /a/. |
Hawaiian[10] | lang}} | [haka] | 'shelf' | See Hawaiian phonology | |
Hebrew | lang}} | [har] | 'mountain' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | |
Hindi | Standard[4] | lang}} | [ˈhəm] | 'we' | See Hindustani phonology |
Hmong | lang}} | [haɨ̰] | 'to honor' | ||
Hungarian | lang}} | [hɛjɛʃ] | 'right' | See Hungarian phonology | |
Italian | Tuscan[11] | lang}} | [iˌhäɸiˈθäːni] | 'the captains' | Intervocalic allophone of /k/.[11] See Italian phonology |
Japanese | lang}} / {{#invoke:lang|lang}} | [su͍hada] | 'bare skin' | See Japanese phonology | |
Korean | lang}} / {{#invoke:lang|lang}} | [hɐɾu] | 'day' | See Korean phonology | |
Kabardian | lang}} | [tχɪɬhɑ] | 'books' | ||
Lakota | lang}} | [ho] | 'voice' | ||
Lao | lang}} | [haː˧˩] | 'five' | ||
Leonese | lang}} | [ˈwahe̞] | 'boy' | ||
Lezgian | lang}} | [hek] | 'glue' | ||
Limburgish | Some dialects[12][13] | lang}} | [hɔːs] | 'glove' | Voiced Template:IPAblink in other dialects. The example word is from the Weert dialect. |
Luxembourgish[14] | lang}} | [hɑ̝ɪ̯] | 'here' | See Luxembourgish phonology | |
Malay | lang}} | [hari] | 'day' | ||
Mutsun | lang}} | [hut͡ʃɛkniʃ] | 'dog' | ||
Navajo | lang}} | [hàsd̥ìːn] | 'mister' | ||
Norwegian | lang}} | [hɑtː] | 'hat' | See Norwegian phonology | |
Pashto | lang}} | [ho] | 'yes' | ||
Persian | lang}} | [hæft] | 'seven' | See Persian phonology | |
Pirahã | lang}} | [hì] | 'he' | ||
Portuguese | Many Brazilian dialects[15] | lang}} | [maˈhetɐ] | 'sledgehammer' | Allophone of /ʁ/. [h, ɦ] are marginal sounds to many speakers, particularly out of Brazil. See Portuguese phonology |
Most dialects | lang}} | [ˈhõ̞dɐ] | 'Honda' | ||
Minas Gerais (mountain dialect) | lang}} | [ˈahtʃ] | 'art' | ||
Colloquial Brazilian[16][17] | lang}} | [ɕuˈvihku] | 'drizzle' | Corresponds to either /s/ or /ʃ/ (depending on dialect) in the syllable coda. Might also be deleted. | |
Romanian | lang}} | [həts] | 'bridle' | See Romanian phonology | |
Serbo-Croatian | Croatian[18] | lang}} | [hmê̞ʎ̟] | 'hops' | Allophone of /x/ when it is initial in a consonant cluster.[18] See Serbo-Croatian phonology |
Spanish[19] | Andalusian | lang}} | [ˈhiɣo̞] | 'fig' | Corresponds to Old Spanish /h/, which was developed from Latin /f/ but muted in other dialects. |
Many dialects | lang}} | [o̞ˈβ̞ihpo̞] | 'bishop' | Allophone of /s/. See Spanish phonology | |
Some dialects | lang}} | [ˈhaka] | 'pony' | Corresponds to /x/ in other dialects. | |
Swedish | lang}} | [ˈhatː] | 'hat' | See Swedish phonology | |
Sylheti | lang}} | [hamux] | 'snail' | ||
Thai | lang}} | [haː˥˩] | 'five' | ||
Turkish | lang}} | [häˈɫɯ] | 'carpet' | See Turkish phonology | |
Ubykh | [dwaha] | 'prayer' | See Ubykh phonology | ||
Urdu | Standard[4] | lang}} | [ˈhəm] | 'we' | See Hindi-Urdu phonology |
Vietnamese[20] | lang}} | [hjew˧˩˧] | 'understand' | See Vietnamese phonology | |
Welsh | lang}} | [ˈhaɨl] | 'sun' | See Welsh orthography | |
West Frisian | lang}} | [ˈhukə] | 'corner' | ||
Yi | lang}} / {{#invoke:lang|lang}} | [ha˧] | 'hundred' |
See also
Notes
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