glottal
pronunciation
How to pronounce glottal in British English:
UK [ˈglɒtl]
How to pronounce glottal in American English:
US [ˈglɑtl]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to or produced by the glottis
Word Origin
- glottal (adj.)
- 1846, "pertaining to or formed by the glottis;" see glottis + -al (1). Glossal is attested from 1860.
Example
- 1. Estimating rat glottal area by region growing and morphology .
- 2. Assessment of dynamic change of glottal area .
- 3. Cuneiform was in many ways unsuited to akkadian : among its flaws was its inability to represent important phonemes in semitic , including a glottal stop , pharyngeals , and emphatic consonants .
- 4. Zhengzhang shangfang has told the author that taizhou dialect tone iii has glottal constriction , which resembles wenzhou dialect .