Pharyngeal Consonants in The IPA
Pharyngeal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA):
| IPA | Description | Example (Somali) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
| pharyngeal approximant | caadi | normal | ||
| voiceless pharyngeal fricative | xood | cane | ||
- When pharyngeal stops are posited, they are sometimes transcribed with a small capital Q, ⟨⟩.
- Although traditionally placed in the fricative row of the IPA chart, is usually an approximant. The IPA symbol itself is ambiguous, but no language has a distinct fricative and approximant at this place of articulation. Sometimes the lowering diacritic is used to specify that the manner is approximant: .
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