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Ejective consonant

In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream. In the phonology of a particular language, ejectives may contrast with aspirated, voiced and tenuis consonants. Some languages have glottalized sonorants that pattern with ejectives phonologically, and others have ejectives that…

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related to Bibliography · 111
Ejective consonant → African Studies, Alberta Working Papers, Altitude, American Linguistics, Amharic, An Analysis, Andrew, April, Archived, Are, Aspects, Asya, Beck, Bibcode, Blackwell, Bulletin, Caleb, Campbell, Caucasus, Consonants
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Ejective consonant → Africa, Americas, Andes, Caucasus, Consonants, East African Rift, Ejectives, Elsewhere, English, Geography, In, Language, Maya Mountains, North American Cordillera, Phonetically, South African Plateau, The, They
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Ejective consonant → Almost, Amharic, Among, Beck, Hausa, In, Kabardian, Keres, Khoisan, Lakota, Northwest Caucasian, Other, Takkele Taddese, Tlingit, Ubykh, Upper Necaxa Totonac, Wikipedia, Yuchi
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Ejective consonant → Americanist, Armenian, Caucasian, Hadza, Haida, However, In, In Hausa, In Zulu, International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA, IPA-like, Latin, Russian, Transcriptions, Xhosa
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Ejective consonant → Ejective ConsonantWALS, Listen

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the Caucasus which forms an island of ejective languagesinstance ofThe occurrence of ejectives often correlates to languages in mountainous regions0.80text
Checheninstance ofthe Northeast Caucasian languages0.80text
Avarinstance ofthe Northeast Caucasian languages0.80text
Ejective consonantrelated to BibliographyBeck0.60section
Ejective consonantrelated to BibliographyDavid0.60section
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Ejective consonantrelated to BibliographyUpper Necaxa Totonac0.60section
Ejective consonantrelated to BibliographyUniversity0.60section
Ejective consonantrelated to BibliographyAlberta Working Papers0.60section
Ejective consonantrelated to BibliographyLinguistics0.60section
Ejective consonantrelated to BibliographyCampbell0.60section
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