glottal

• There was nothing like it in human speech, except perhaps the self-harmonies of Tibetan throat singers or the glottal clicking of the ancient Khoikhoins of South Africa. —  FSFMagazine,July2007
• The right word in the wrong mouth, a mouth that stops when it should glottal or clicks when it should clack, could turn his tummy into a hat, roll back time, or turn his blood to fire. —  FSF, July 2006
• She puts the same funny pop in the middle of "glottal." —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
• By the end of his large and satisfying breakfast he was glottal-stopping with the best of them. —  Omni: Winter 1995
• If the vocal cords are brought together, cutting off the air stream, and then allowed to vibrate again, the voiceless hiatus in the vowel is known as a glottal stop and in many languages functions as a consonant. —  AnalogSFF,May2008

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