glottal
nounEtymology From glottis + -al.
1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A sound made with the glottis
glottal
adjUK /ˈɡlɒt.l̩/ · US /ˈɡlɑ.tl̩/
Etymology From glottis + -al.
1
Of or relating to the glottis.
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences Articulated with the glottis.
- Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:
- Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024:
- Synonyms
- glottic, glottidean
- Derived terms
- glottal catch, glottal fry, glottalic, glottalise, glottality, glottalization, glottalize, glottalling, glottal stop, glottal-stopped, infraglottal, intraglottal, nonglottal, periglottal, pharyngoglottal, subglottal, supraglottal, transglottal