The Conlang FAQ

Phonological glossary

adapted from a 8 May 1997 post by Mark P. Line

Daniel Boese wrote:

Mark P. Line wrote:
>clear voiced vowels
>pharyngealized vowels
>breathy vowels
>voiceless vowels
>uvular trill
>unreleased bidental stop
>exolabial sibilants, voiced & voiceless
>exolabial laterals, voiced & voiceless
Now all I have to do is figure out what "pharyngealized" means, as well as all the rest - the only definitions for vowels I know of use height, frontness, roundedness, length, nasalization, and tenseness; and a similar set for consonants. Or, some kind person on the list could do me a great favour and concede to give an explanation of both the individual words describing, and the actual sounds described, above... :)
I made up the term "exolabial", intended to mean the point of articulation is "outside the lips", and also the term "bidental", referring to articulation with both upper and lower teeth.

>From Kenneth L. Pike, Phonemics:


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