Uvularization
| Uvularized | |
|---|---|
| ◌ʶ | |
| ◌ᵡ |
Uvularization or uvularisation (British English) is a secondary articulation of consonants or vowels by which the back of the tongue is constricted toward the uvula and upper pharynx during the articulation of a sound with its primary articulation elsewhere.
IPA symbols
In the
VoQS
standards.
Occurrence
Uvularized consonants are often not distinguished from
pharyngealized consonants
, and they may be transcribed as if they were pharyngealized.
In
Arabic and several other Semitic and Berber languages, uvularization is the defining characteristic of the series of "emphatic" coronal consonants.[1][2]
Uvularized consonants in standard Arabic are /sʶ/, /dʶ/, /tʶ/, /ðʶ/, /lʶ/. Regionally there is also /zʶ/ and /rʶ/. Other consonants, and vowels, may be phonetically uvularized.
In
References
- .
- ISBN 9781556195969.
- doi:10.21437/Eurospeech.1997-145. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2017-08-29.
- ^ Wells, J. (1982) Accents of English, 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[page needed]