Word info

pharyngealized

Speech parts

1. pharyngealized - Adjective

2. pharyngealized - Verb

Meaning

pharyngealized

simple past and past participle of pharyngealize

pharyngealized (not comparable)

Produced by pharyngealization

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

For example, Chilcotin has a phonological process known as vowel flattening (i.e. post-velar harmony) where vowels must harmonize with uvular and pharyngealized consonants. Source: Internet

Note that the terms pharyngealized, epiglottalized, strident, and sphincteric are sometimes used interchangeably. Source: Internet

The Juǀʼhoan language has 48 click consonants, among nearly as many non-click consonants, strident and pharyngealized vowels, and four tones. Source: Internet

One example is the emphatic consonants, which are pharyngealized in modern pronunciations but may have been velarized in the eighth century and glottalized in Proto-Semitic. Source: Internet

Some dialects have replaced emphatic consonants with non-emphatic counterparts, while those spoken in the Caucasus often have glottalized rather than pharyngealized emphatics. Source: Internet

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