Popular Conceptions of Guttural Consonants
English speakers are not commonly exposed to guttural vowels, so popular impressions focus on guttural consonants. Gutturals are seen as those sounds pronounced in the back of the vocal tract that do not occur in English, and which are perceived as harsh. Therefore velar stops such as, and are not considered guttural, but velar fricatives and affricates such as, and are; the glottal consonants and are not considered guttural, but epiglottal and are.
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