What is "glottal"

Usage examples of "glottal".

Also, there are some glottal stops, fricatives, and labials that do not register properly.

Cugel tasted the arrak, which scorched the entire interior of his glottal cavity.

I talked the same way at his age, fighting my rogue aitches and glottal stops.

Tuvok replied in the same language, and Pablo watched cluelessly as they carried on a strange glottal, whistley conversation in front of him.

Additional frog voices contributed their simulations of slowly dripping water, plucked strings, human glottal trill, buzzing drill bits, amplified guitar notes.

Charlie became so strangled around the extended glottal stop that he started to choke.

There was an undulating whistling and high-pitched humming from the Evergreen, again intermixed with the smacking sound that was somewhat similar to a glottal stop.

Cursing, he trie d again, this time transposing two vowels and a glottal stop: the lock sprang open.

It was for the sake of our rare speech with the Gentles that we had added the glottal stop to our Naming alphabet all those many years ago.

It took Mike a moment to work out her meaning, slightly because of the shifted glottal stop, more because of the mixture of Tahitian and Samoan, more still because he had not expected such language from the captain, and perhaps mostly because he himself was probably the only person now on Kainui who had ever actually seen a shark and might be expected to mention its entrails as a curse.

The pronunciation gave him trouble at first, but by the end of the week he could lip smack, click, make the fast glottal stop, and hear and say vowel distinctions he had never suspected existed.

These people have contracted a lot of sounds and lost some, and they've even introduced a glottal stop-something that no language needs.

Once when among those rebels in a state of hopelessly helpless intoxication the piscivore strove to lift a czitround peel to either nostril, hiccupping, apparently impromptued by the hibat he had with his glottal stop, that he kukkakould flowrish for ever by the smell, as the czitr, as the kcedron, like a scedar, of the founts, on mountains, with limon on, of Lebanon.

Ng bursts foiih with a long string of twangy noises, pops, and glottal stops.

Later she gets up and asks me if she can make a phone call, and I say of course you can, you dont even have to ask me, and she spends a long time talking in Russian to someone I guess is her boyfriend, the glottal stops of the language made even harsher by her crying.