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phonetics
- In phonetics: Types of airstream
…resulting sound is called an ejective. Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, uses this mechanism to produce both ejective stops and fricatives, which contrast with the more usual stops and fricatives made with a pulmonic airstream mechanism. A downward movement of the glottis is used in the production of implosive…
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Semitic languages
- In Semitic languages: The voiceless, voiced, and emphatic sounds
…are made with an “ejective” pronunciation. For instance, in producing an ejective t the airstream is closed off simultaneously by the front of the tongue (as in the case of a nonejective t) and by the vocal cords, and the release of the closure at the tongue is accompanied…
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