Creaky-voiced glottal approximant

Creaky-voiced glottal approximant
ʔ̞
ʔ̰

The creaky-voiced glottal approximant is a consonant sound in some languages. In the IPA it is transcribed as ⟨ʔ̞⟩ or ⟨ʔ̰⟩.^[1] It involves tension in the glottis and diminution of airflow compared to surrounding vowels, but not full occlusion. It is an intervocalic allophone of a glottal stop in many languages. It is only reported to be contrastive in Gimi, where it behaves phonologically as the voiced equivalent of the glottal stop /ʔ/.^[2]

References

^ e.g. Kehrein & Golston (2004) "A prosodic theory of laryngeal contrasts", Phonology 21.3
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Creaky-voiced glottal approximant