implosive consonant

The language features two implosive consonants, which are uncommon in the world's languages.

The vast majority of implosive consonants are voiced, meaning that the glottis is only partially closed.

For some speakers the voiced stops may be realized as implosive consonants, but often the implosion is very light to non-existent.

The implosive consonants in Kaqchikel are usually voiceless, which is unusual for implosives.

Dhatki has implosive consonants.

The language has implosive consonants (bilabial and retroflex), but no ejective consonants (Bender 1983).

The emphatic consonants of Jabo were once thought to be an example of the emergence of an implosive consonant series.

All Surmic languages are presumed to be tonal, have implosive consonants, and have distinctive vowel length.

Implosive consonants are common in languages of the area, but ejective consonants are not found in Majang.

Hainanese notably has a series of implosive consonants, which it has picked up under influence from surrounding languages, probably Hlai.

In addition, they use "plosive" for a pulmonic stop; "stops" in their usage include ejective and implosive consonants.

Glottalic ingressives are called 'implosive consonants', although they may involve zero airflow rather than actual inflow.

The term 'glottalized' is also used for ejective and implosive consonants; see glottalic consonant for examples.

This is the opposite pattern to what is found in the implosive consonants, in which the bilabial is common and the velar is rare.

This term is generally applied to the implosive consonants, which actually use a mixed glottalic ingressive-pulmonic egressive airstream.

It is also used, to a lesser extent, to describe cognate series in other Afro-Asiatic languages, where they are typically realized as either ejective or implosive consonants.

Diacritical bars below the letter are used to mark implosive consonants, and dots called nukta are used to form other additional consonants.

The Fula-Tenda languages all have implosive consonants, while Serer and Fula share noun-class suffixes.

Implosive consonants are stops (rarely affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.

The language has a three ejective consonant phonemes and two implosive consonant phonemes, fitting the pattern of the Ethiopian Language Area.

An egressive glottalic airstream produces ejective consonants, while an ingressive glottalic airstream produces implosive consonants.

Full or partial closure of the glottis also allows glottalic airstream mechanisms to operate, producing ejective or implosive consonants, which (implosives) may themselves have modal, stiff, or creaky voice.

This inventory includes phonemically distinctive implosive consonants, which makes Sindhi and Saraiki unusual among the Indo-European languages (and not just among the Indo-Aryan languages).

It has several of the features common in other Surmic languages: Implosive consonants, multiple strategies for marking number on nouns, a marked nominative case system, and VSO order but sentence-final question words.

Some of the differences are simply different interpretations of Li's consonants: the palatal consonants are interpreted as stops, rather than affricates, and the glottalized consonants are described using symbols for implosive consonants.