Glottal stop

The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʔ⟩.

Glottal stop
ʔ
IPA number	113
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As a result of the obstruction of the airflow in the glottis, the glottal vibration either stops or becomes irregular with a low rate and sudden drop in intensity.

Features

Features of the glottal stop:^{[citation needed]}

• Its manner of articulation is occlusive, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet, the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a plosive.
• Its place of articulation is glottal, which means it is articulated at and by the vocal cords (vocal folds).
• It has no phonation at all, as there is no airflow through the glottis. It is voiceless, however, in the sense that it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
• It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
• Because the sound is not produced with airflow over the tongue, the central–lateral dichotomy does not apply.
• Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.

Writing

Road sign in British Columbia showing the use of the digit ⟨7⟩ to represent /ʔ/ in Squamish.

In the traditional romanization of many languages, such as Arabic, the glottal stop is transcribed with the apostrophe ⟨ʼ⟩ or the symbol ⟨ʾ⟩, which is the source of the IPA character ⟨ʔ⟩. In many Polynesian languages that use the Latin alphabet, however, the glottal stop is written with a rotated apostrophe, ⟨ʻ⟩ (called ʻokina in Hawaiian and Samoan), which is commonly used to transcribe the Arabic ayin as well (also ⟨ʽ⟩) and is the source of the IPA character for the voiced pharyngeal fricative ⟨ʕ⟩. In Malay the glottal stop is represented by the letter ⟨k⟩ (at the end of words), in Võro and Maltese by ⟨q⟩. Another way of writing the glottal stop is the saltillo ⟨Ꞌ ꞌ⟩, used in languages such as Tlapanec and Rapa Nui.

Other scripts also have letters used for representing the glottal stop, such as the Hebrew letter aleph ⟨א‎⟩ and the Cyrillic letter palochka ⟨Ӏ⟩, used in several Caucasian languages. The Arabic script uses hamza ⟨ء⟩, which can appear both as a diacritic and as an independent letter (though not part of the alphabet). In Tundra Nenets, it is represented by the letters apostrophe ⟨ʼ⟩ and double apostrophe ⟨ˮ⟩. In Japanese, glottal stops occur at the end of interjections of surprise or anger and are represented by the character ⟨っ⟩.

In the graphic representation of most Philippine languages, the glottal stop has no consistent symbolization. In most cases, however, a word that begins with a vowel-letter (e.g. Tagalog aso, "dog") is always pronounced with an unrepresented glottal stop before that vowel (as in Modern German and Hausa). Some orthographies use a hyphen instead of the reverse apostrophe if the glottal stop occurs in the middle of the word (e.g. Tagalog pag-ibig, "love"; or Visayan gabi-i, "night"). If it occurs in the end of a word, the last vowel can be written with a circumflex accent (known as the pakupyâ) if both a stress and a glottal stop occur in the final vowel (e.g. basâ, "wet") or a grave accent (known as the paiwà) if the glottal stop occurs at the final vowel, but the stress occurs at the penultimate syllable (e.g. batà, "child").

Some Canadian indigenous languages, especially some of the Salishan languages, have adopted the IPA letter ⟨ʔ⟩ into their orthographies. In some of them, it occurs as a casing pair, ⟨Ɂ⟩ and ⟨ɂ⟩. The digit ⟨7⟩ or a question mark is sometimes substituted for ⟨ʔ⟩, and is preferred in languages such as Squamish. SENĆOŦEN – whose alphabet is mostly unique from other Salish languages – contrastly uses the comma ⟨,⟩ to represent the glottal stop, though it is optional.

In 2015, two women in the Northwest Territories challenged the territorial government over its refusal to permit them to use the letter ⟨ʔ⟩ in their daughters' names: Sahaiʔa, a Chipewyan name, and Sakaeʔah, a Slavey name (the two names are actually cognates). The territory argued that territorial and federal identity documents were unable to accommodate the character. The women registered the names with hyphens instead of the ⟨ʔ⟩, while continuing to challenge the policy.

In the Crow language, the glottal stop is written as a question mark ⟨?⟩. The only instance of the glottal stop in Crow is as a question marker morpheme at the end of a sentence.

Use of the glottal stop is a distinct characteristic of the Southern Mainland Argyll dialects of Scottish Gaelic. In such a dialect, the standard Gaelic phrase Tha Gàidhlig agam ("I speak Gaelic"), would be rendered Tha Gàidhlig a'am.^{[citation needed]}

In the Nawdm language of Ghana, the glottal stop is written ɦ, capital Ĥ.

In English

Replacement of /t/

In English, the glottal stop occurs as an open juncture (for example, between the vowel sounds in uh-oh!,) and allophonically in t-glottalization. In British English, the glottal stop is most familiar in the Cockney pronunciation of "butter" as "bu'er". Geordie English often uses glottal stops for t, k, and p, and has a unique form of glottalization. Additionally, there is the glottal stop as a null onset for English; in other words, it is the non-phonemic glottal stop occurring before isolated or initial vowels.

Often a glottal stop happens at the beginning of vowel phonation after a silence.

Although this segment is not a phoneme in English, it occurs phonetically in nearly all dialects of English, as an allophone of /t/ in the syllable coda. Speakers of Cockney, Scottish English and several other British dialects also pronounce an intervocalic /t/ between vowels as in city. In Received Pronunciation, a glottal stop is inserted before a tautosyllabic voiceless stop: stoʼp, thaʼt, knoʼck, waʼtch, also leaʼp, soaʼk, helʼp, pinʼch.

In American English, a "t" is usually not aspirated in syllables ending either in a vowel + "t", such as "cat" or "outside"; or in a "t" + unstressed vowel + "n", such as "mountain" or "Manhattan". This is referred to as a "held t" as the airflow is stopped by tongue at the ridge behind the teeth. However, there is a trend of younger speakers in the Mid-Atlantic states to replace the "held t" with a glottal stop, so that "Manhattan" sounds like "Man-haʔ-in" or "Clinton" like "Cli(n)ʔ-in", where "ʔ" is the glottal stop. This may have crossed over from African American Vernacular English, particularly that of New York City.

Before initial vowels

Most English speakers today often use a glottal stop before the initial vowel of words beginning with a vowel, particularly at the beginning of sentences or phrases or when a word is emphasized. This is also known as "hard attack". Traditionally in Received Pronunciation, "hard attack" was seen as a way to emphasize a word. Today, in British, American and other varieties of English, it is increasingly used not only to emphasize but also simply to separate two words, especially when the first word ends in a glottal stop.^{[clarification needed]}

Occurrence in other languages

In many languages that do not allow a sequence of vowels, such as Persian, the glottal stop may be used epenthetically to prevent such a hiatus. There are intricate interactions between falling tone and the glottal stop in the histories of such languages as Danish (see stød), Cantonese and Thai.^{[citation needed]}

In many languages, the unstressed intervocalic allophone of the glottal stop is a creaky-voiced glottal approximant. It is known to be contrastive in only one language, Gimi, in which it is the voiced equivalent of the stop.^{[citation needed]}

In some languages that normally maintain the flow of vowels fluid, a glottal stop can be added exceptionally for emphatic reasons in particular circumstances. For instance, although the Latin language would normally avoid glottal stops, the hexameter requires the reader to produce a glottal stop – to be regarded by all means as a consontant – before odiīs (i.e. "jactētur ʔodiīs") in verse 668 of Virgil's Aeneid:^{[citation needed]}

lītora jactētur odiīs Jūnōnis inīquae

The table below demonstrates how widely the sound of glottal stop is found among the world's spoken languages:

Family	Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Northwest Caucasian	Abkhaz		аи/ai	[ʔaj]	'no'	See Abkhaz phonology.
Northwest Caucasian	Adyghe		ӏэ/'ė	[ʔa]	'arm/hand'
Semitic	Arabic	Modern Standard	أغاني/ʿaġani	[ʔaˈɣaːniː]	'songs'	See Arabic phonology, Hamza.
		Levantine and Egyptian	شقة/ša''a	[ˈʃæʔʔæ]	'apartment'	Corresponds to /q/ or /g/ in other dialects. See Levantine Arabic phonology and Egyptian Arabic phonology
		Fasi and Tlemcenian	قال/'al	[ˈʔaːl]	'he said'	Corresponds to /q/ or /g/ in other dialects.
Kiranti	Bantawa		चा:वा	[t͡saʔwa]	'drinking water'
Bikol	Bikol		bàgo	[ˈbaːʔɡo]	'new'
Slavic	Bulgarian		ъ-ъ/ŭ-ŭ	[ˈʔɤʔɤ]	'nope'
Sino-Tibetan	Burmese		မြစ်များ/mrac mya:	[mjiʔ mjá]	'rivers'
Philippine	Cebuano		tubò	[ˈtuboʔ]	'to grow'
Malayo-Polynesian	Chamorro		haluʼu	[həluʔu]	'shark'
Sinitic	Chinese	Cantonese	愛/oi3	[ʔɔːi˧]	'love'	See Cantonese phonology.
		Wu	一级了/ih cih leh	[ʔiɪʔ.tɕiɪʔ.ʔləʔ]	'superb'
		Hokkien	合/ha̍h	[hɐʔ˥]	'to suit'
Polynesian	Cook Islands Māori		taʻi	[taʔi]	'one'
Slavic	Czech		používat	[poʔuʒiːvat]	'to use'	See Czech phonology.
Cushitic	Dahalo		maʼa	[maʔa]	'water'	see Dahalo phonology
Germanic	Danish		hånd	[ˈhʌ̹nʔ]	'hand'	One of the possible realizations of stød. Depending on the dialect and style of speech, it can be instead realized as laryngealisation of the preceding sound. See Danish phonology.
Germanic	Dutch		beamen	[bəʔˈaːmə(n)]	'to confirm'	See Dutch phonology.
Germanic	English	Multiple dialects	I am	[ʔaɪ ʔæm] (emphatic "am")) or [ʔaɪ æm]	'I'	Glottal stop before initial vowel at the start of a phrase. Elsewhere, optionally, to emphasize a word or separate it from the previous one.
		RP	uh-oh	[ˈɐʔəʊ]	'uh-oh'
		American
		Australian	cat	[kʰæʔ(t)]	'cat'	Allophone of /t/, /k/ or /p/. See glottalization, English phonology, and definite article reduction.
		GA
		Estuary		[kʰæʔ]
		Cockney		[kʰɛ̝ʔ]
		Scottish		[kʰäʔ]
		Some Northern England	the	[ʔ]	'the'
		Geordie	thank you		'thank you'
		Geordie	people		'people'
		RP and GA	button		'button'
Germanic	German	Northern	Beamter	[bəˈʔamtɐ]	'civil servant'	Generally all vowel onsets. See Standard German phonology.
Tupi-Guarani	Guaraní		avañeʼẽ	[ãʋ̃ãɲẽˈʔẽ]	'Guaraní'	Occurs only between vowels.
Polynesian	Hawaiian		ʻeleʻele	[ˈʔɛlɛˈʔɛlɛ]	'black'	See Hawaiian phonology.
Semitic	Hebrew		מַאֲמָר/ma'amar	[maʔămaʁ]	'article'	Often elided in casual speech. See Modern Hebrew phonology.
Germanic	Icelandic		en	[ʔɛn]	'but'	Only used according to emphasis, never occurring in minimal pairs.
Malayo-Polynesian	Iloko		nalab-ay	[nalabˈʔaj]	'bland tasting'	Hyphen when occurring within the word.
Malayo-Polynesian	Indonesian		bakso	[ˌbäʔˈso]	'meatball'	Allophone of /k/ or /ɡ/ in the syllable coda.
Northeast-Caucasian	Ingush		кхоъ / qoʼ	[qoʔ]	'three'
Japonic	Japanese	Kagoshima	/kuQ/	[kuʔ]	'neck'
Malayo-Polynesian	Javanese		ꦲꦤꦏ꧀	[änäʔ]	'child'	Allophone of /k/ in morpheme-final position.
Aslian	Jedek			[wɛ̃ʔ]	'left side'
Northwest-Caucasian	Kabardian		ӏэ/'ė	[ʔa]	'arm/hand'
Manobo	Kagayanen		saag	[saˈʔaɡ]	'floor'
Khasi-Palaungic	Khasi		lyoh	[lʔɔːʔ]	'cloud'
Mon-Khmer	Khmer		សំអាត / sâmqat	[sɑmʔɑːt]	'to clean'	See Khmer phonology
Koreanic	Korean		일/il	[ʔil]	'one'	In free variation with no glottal stop. Occurs only in initial position of a word.
Malayo-Polynesian	Malay	Standard	tidak	[ˈtidäʔ]	'no'	Allophone of final /k/ in the syllable coda, pronounced before consonants and at end of the a word. In other positions, /ʔ/ has phonemic status only in loanwords from Arabic. See Malay phonology
		Kelantan-Pattani	ikat	[ˌiˈkaʔ]	'to tie'	Allophone of final /p, t, k/ in the syllable coda. Pronounced before consonants and at the end of a word.
		Terengganu
Semitic	Maltese		qattus	[ˈʔattus]	'cat'
Polynesian	Māori	Taranaki, Whanganui	wahine	[waʔinɛ]	'woman'
Malayo-Polynesian	Minangkabau		waʼang	[wäʔäŋ]	'you'	Sometimes written without an apostrophe.
Yok-Utian	Mutsun		tawkaʼli	[tawkaʔli]	'black gooseberry'	Ribes divaricatum
Kartvelian	Mingrelian		ჸოროფა/?oropha	[ʔɔrɔpʰɑ]	'love'
Uto-Aztecan	Nahuatl		tahtli		'father'	Often left unwritten.
Plateau-Penutian	Nez Perce		yáakaʔ	[ˈjaːkaʔ]	'black bear'
Tupi-Guarani	Nheengatu		ai	[aˈʔi]	'sloth'	Transcription (or absence thereof) varies.
Algonquian	Ojibwe		ᒪᓯᓇᐃᑲᓐ/mazina'igan	[ˌmʌzɪˌnʌʔɪˈɡʌn]	'a book; a letter; a document; a paper'	Merges with /h/ in some dialects. See Ojibwe phonology.
Ryukyuan	Okinawan		音/utu	[ʔutu]	'sound'
Indo-Iranian	Persian		معنی/ma'ni	[maʔni]	'meaning'	See Persian phonology.
Slavic	Polish		era	[ʔɛra]	'era'	Most often occurs as an anlaut of an initial vowel (Ala ‒> [Ɂala]). See Polish phonology#Glottal stop.
Mura	Pirahã		baíxi	[ˈmàí̯ʔì]	'parent'
Romance	Portuguese	Vernacular Brazilian	ê-ê	[ˌʔe̞ˈʔeː]	'yeah right'	Marginal sound. Does not occur after or before a consonant. In Brazilian casual speech, there is at least one [ʔ]–vowel length–pitch accent minimal pair (triply unusual, the ideophones short ih vs. long ih). See Portuguese phonology.
		Some speakers	à aula	[ˈa ˈʔawlɐ]	'to the class'
Oceanic	Rotuman		ʻusu	[ʔusu]	'to box'
Slavic	Russian		не-а / ne-a	[ˈnʲeʔə]	'nope'
Polynesian	Samoan		maʻi	[maʔi]	'sickness/illness'
Romance	Sardinian	Some dialects of Barbagia	unu pacu	[ˈuːnu paʔu]	'a little'	Intervocalic allophone of /n, k, l/.
		Some dialects of Sarrabus	sa luna	[sa ʔuʔa]	'the moon'
Slavic	Serbo-Croatian		i onda	[iː ʔô̞n̪d̪a̠]	'and then'	Optionally inserted between vowels across word boundaries. See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Isolate	Seri		he	[ʔɛ]	'I'
Cushitic	Somali		baʼ	[baʔ]	'calamity'	though /ʔ/ occurs before all vowels, it is only written medially and finally. See Somali phonology
Romance	Spanish	Nicaraguan	más alto	[ˈma ˈʔal̻t̻o̞]	'higher'	Marginal sound or allophone of /s/ between vowels in different words. Does not occur after or before a consonant. See Spanish phonology.
		Yucateco	cuatro años	[ˈkwatɾo̞ ˈʔãɲo̞s]	'four years'
Salishan	Squamish		Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim	[sqʷχʷoʔməʃ snit͡ʃim]	'Squamish language'
Philippine	Tagalog		aaâ	[ʔɐʔɐˈʔaʔ]	'to poo' (fut.)	See Tagalog phonology.
Polynesian	Tahitian		puaʻa	[puaʔa]	'pig'
Tai-Kadai	Thai		อา/'ā	[ʔaː]	'uncle/aunt' (father's younger sibling)
Polynesian	Tongan		tuʻu	[tuʔu]	'stand'
Samoyedic	Tundra Nenets		выʼ/vy'	[wɨʔ]	'tundra'
Vietic	Vietnamese		oi	[ʔɔj˧]	'sultry'	In free variation with no glottal stop. See Vietnamese phonology.
Finnic	Võro		piniq	[ˈpinʲiʔ]	'dogs'	"q" is Võro plural marker (maa, kala, "land", "fish"; maaq, kalaq, "lands", "fishes").
Isolate	Wagiman		jamh	[t̠ʲʌmʔ]	'to eat' (perf.)
Omotic	Welayta		7írTi	[ʔirʈa]	'wet'
Polynesian	Wallisian		maʻuli	[maʔuli]	'life'

See also

• Saltillo
• Index of phonetics articles
• Hamza
• Voiced pharyngeal fricative

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