The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or...

called glottal stop, is an alphabetic letter in some Latin alphabets, most notably in several languages of Canada where it indicates a glottal stop sound...

phenomenon is to say that a glottal stop is made simultaneously with another consonant. In certain cases, the glottal stop can even wholly replace the...

(U+02E4 ˤ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP) and Semiticist ⟨ˁ⟩ (U+02C1 ˁ MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP). U+02E4 is formally a superscript...

called glottalization. Apparently, glottal reinforcement, which is quite common in English, is a stage preceding full replacement of the stop, and indeed...

voiceless and voiced glottal fricatives. The glottal stop occurs in many languages. Often all vocalic onsets are preceded by a glottal stop, for example in...

this as a glottal stop) has been variously described as a voiced epiglottal fricative, an epiglottal approximant, or a pharyngealized glottal stop. Guttural...

apostrophe as Xī'ān.) Furthermore, an apostrophe may be used to indicate a glottal stop in transliterations. For example: in the Arabic word Qur'an, a common...

alternating with the glottal stop [k]~[ʔ]. The glottal stop, also being an allophone of word-final /k/, contrasts with non-glottal endings. One interesting...

every non-glottal Hawaiian consonant /p, k, m, n, l, w/ with glottal fricative /h/ and glottal stop /ʔ/. (See Hawaiian phonology#Glottal stop) There are...

Otherwise, if /u/ is before or after the glottal stop, a wāw with a hamzah is used: ⟨ؤ⟩. If the glottal stop occurs at the end of the word (ignoring any...

and a short one) and eight consonants: he ke la mu nu pi we ʻokina (a glottal stop). The Hawaiian language takes its name from the largest island in the...

of a true consonant, a glottal stop ([ʔ]), the sound found in the catch in uh-oh. In Arabic, the alif represents the glottal stop pronunciation when it...

a vowel may be pronounced with an epenthetic glottal stop when following a pause, though the glottal stop may not be a phoneme in the language. Few languages...

stress and/or the presence of a final glottal stop. In formal or academic settings, stress placement and the glottal stop are indicated by a diacritic (tuldík)...

is an Arabic script character that, in the Arabic alphabet, denotes a glottal stop and, in non-Arabic languages, indicates a diphthong, vowel, or other...

and nasals are not called nasal stops, then a stop may mean the glottal stop; "plosive" may even mean non-glottal stop. In other cases, however, it may...

in the village of Burkikhan, Dagestan has both (as well as an epiglottal stop), as presented in these audio files. Features of the voiced epiglottal trill/fricative:...

tones. The final stops of Middle Chinese have disappeared in most of these varieties, but some have merged them as a final glottal stop. Many Mandarin varieties...

lost altogether (thus, in the revived Modern Hebrew it is reduced to a glottal stop or is omitted entirely in part due to European influence). The Phoenician...

speakers. As a result of contact with the Philippine languages, the glottal stop [ʔ] regularly manifests in the speech of most (if not all) Philippine...

the glottal stop found after consonants and before vowels. This has been lost in Standard Tagalog, probably influenced by Spanish, where glottal stop doesn't...

or formal speech, where an audible hiatus (sometimes enunciated as a glottal stop) may occur between a sequence of two identical short vowels, but not...

treats the glottal stop as its own letter, represented by the apostrophe. Skilled players of the Australian didgeridoo restrict their glottal opening in...

the Phoenician alphabet, also written 'aleph—where it represented a glottal stop [ʔ], as Phoenician only used consonantal letters. In turn, the ancestor...

The epiglottal or pharyngeal plosive (or stop) is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...

children’s use of the glottal stop [ʔ], in place of /t/ is described as “the most openly stigmatised feature.” The glottal stop can occur in any non-initial...

and the homorganic or glottal stop. These bear some similarities to the Japanese moraic n, ン and sokuon っ. The glottal stop /ʔ/ is the realisation of...

[ˈhɔ̝ː(ɔ̝)p] håbe 'hope'. A word-initial vowel may be preceded by a glottal stop [ʔ] when preceded by a vowel. This is known as sprængansats. Stress,...

how much the glottal stop is dropped (for example aru'uka > aruuka > aruka for "I bring"). It is possible that word-internal glottal stops may have been...