Phonetics and Phonology MOC

Breathy voice

Breathy voice, denoted by ◌ʱ in the International Phonetic Alphabet, is a combination of voicing and aspiration that resembles a sigh.

Phonologically contrastive occurrence

• Indo-Aryan languages — four-way contrast in plosives and affricates
• Nguni languages — the Xhosa language, for example, has a four-way distinction for oral clicks and a three-way distinction for plosives.

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