Acreaky-voiced glottal approximant is aconsonant sound in somelanguages. In theIPA, it is transcribed as ⟨ʔ̰⟩.^[1] It involves tension in theglottis and diminution of airflow, compared to surroundingvowels, but not fullocclusion.

Features of a creaky-voiced glottal approximant:

• Itsmanner of articulation isapproximant, which means it is produced by narrowing the vocal tract at the place of articulation, but not enough to produce aturbulent airstream.
• Its phonation iscreaky-voiced.
• It is anoral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
• Because the sound is not produced with airflow over the tongue, thecentral–lateral dichotomy does not apply.
• Itsairstream mechanism ispulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with theintercostal muscles andabdominal muscles, as in most sounds.

It is an intervocalic allophone of aglottal stop in many languages.

• Voiced glottal fricative
• Voiced nasal glottal approximant

• Approximant consonants
• Glottal consonants
• Pulmonic consonants
• Voiced oral consonants

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