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(definition given, as well as symbols for the pharyngeals, its relevency to ScG and languages in which they can be found.)
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Pharyngeal is a place of articulation, wherein sounds are achieved by pressing the tongue root against the pharynx. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, they are rare and contain only voiced and unvoiced pharyngeal fricatives. The symbols of these sounds are [ħ] and [ʕ] and they are not found in Scottish-Gaelic. Languages that do, however, have pharyngeal sounds are Modern Standard Arabic, Somali, most languages of the Northern Caucasus and Berber.
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As a place of articulation, '''pharyngeal''' refers to sounds that are created when the tongue root is pushed back toward the wall of the pharynx. Sounds made in this manner are only ever fricatives (e.g. [ħ] and [ʕ]). These sounds are fairly rare and are considered ''dorsal'' because of i) their backness in the vocal tract and ii) the use of the tongue root, a posterior part of the tongue. Neither English nor Gaelic manifest pharyngeal consonants.
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
*[[Velar (definition)]]
 
*[[Glottal (definition)]]
 
*[[Alveolar (definition)]]
 
*[[Dental (definition)]]
 
*[[Palatal (definition)]]
 
*[[Labial (definition)]]
 
 
*[[Place of Articulation (definition)]]
 
*[[Place of Articulation (definition)]]
*[[Consonant (definition)]]
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*[[Sounds of Scottish Gaelic]]
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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*[http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html Interactive IPA Charts]
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal_consonant
 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal_consonant
*[http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html Interactive IPA Charts]
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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Latest revision as of 11:57, 10 November 2020

As a place of articulation, pharyngeal refers to sounds that are created when the tongue root is pushed back toward the wall of the pharynx. Sounds made in this manner are only ever fricatives (e.g. [ħ] and [ʕ]). These sounds are fairly rare and are considered dorsal because of i) their backness in the vocal tract and ii) the use of the tongue root, a posterior part of the tongue. Neither English nor Gaelic manifest pharyngeal consonants.

See Also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

  • Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Ladefoged, Peter (1993) A Course in Phonetics Third Edition. London: Harcourt Press.
  • Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.