glottal stop

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡlɒtəl stɒp/

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  • (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ɡlɒʔəl stɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡlɑtəl stɑp/

Noun

glottal stop (plural glottal stops)

1. (phonetics) A plosive sound articulated with the glottis.
2. The glottal stop symbol, ʔ. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• glottal plosive
• hiatus

Translations

plosive sound articulated with the glottis

• Armenian: հագագային աղեղ (hagagayin aġeġ)
• Asturian: oclusiva glotal f
• Bikol Central: untok (bcl)
• Bulgarian: глотална пауза f (glotalna pauza)
• Catalan: oclusiva glotal f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聲門塞音／声门塞音 (shēngmén sèyīn), 清喉塞音 (qīnghóu sèyīn)

• Czech: ráz (cs) m
• Dutch: glottisslag (nl) m
• Esperanto: glota halto
• Estonian: kõrisulghäälik
• Finnish: glottaaliklusiili (fi)
• French: coup de glotte (fr) m
• German: Knacklaut (de), glottaler Plosiv m, Stimmritzenverschlusslaut m, Glottisschlag m
• Guaraní: puso
• Hungarian: gégezárhang (hu), glottális stop, glottális hang
• Icelandic: raddglufulokhljóð n
• Irish: stop glotais m
• Japanese: 声門閉鎖音 (せいもんへいさおん, seimon heisaon), 声門破裂音 (せいもんはれつおん, seimon haretsuon)
• Korean: 성문 폐쇄음 (seongmun pyeswaeeum)
• Lakota: khezé
• Latvian: glotāls slēdzenis
• Limburgish: glottisslaag
• Malay: hentian glotis
• Navajo: saad niyíłtłáádígíí
• Persian: انسدادی چاکنایی
• Polish: zwarcie krtaniowe n
• Portuguese: oclusiva glotal f
• Romanian: ocluziune glotală f
• Russian: горта́нная смы́чка (ru) f (gortánnaja smýčka), твёрдый при́ступ m (tvjórdyj prístup)
• Scottish Gaelic: consan dùinte glotasach m
• Spanish: oclusiva glotal f, saltillo (es) m
• Swedish: glottisstöt c, glottal klusil c
• Tahitian: ’eta
• Tzotzil: tsʼukal
• Ukrainian: гортанна змичка f (hortanna zmyčka)
• Winnebago: hiyuša jikere

See also

• hamza

See also

• ʔ
• ʻokina, ‘okina, 'okina, okina
• stød
• uh-oh