LABIAL •

• LABIAL

Voiceless

Voiced

Voiceless

ALVEOLAR •

Voiced

• ALVEOLAR

Implosive

Implosive

Symbols for the phonetic transcription of implosives

Implosive

Implosive

Voiceless

PALATAL •

Implosive

Voiced

• PALATAL

Implosive

Voiceless

VELAR •

Implosive

Voiced

• VELAR

Implosive

Voiceless

UVULAR •

Implosive

Voiced

• UVULAR

Implosive

Voiceless implosives are sounds which are made on a laryngeal (glottal) ingressive airstream mechanism. The glottis is closed and the larynx as a whole is pulled downwards by means of the infra hyoid muscles. This creates negative pressure above the vocal folds which initiates a brief ingressive airflow. Voiced implosives are based on a combined airstream mechanism, i.e. a laryngeal (ingressive) and a pulmonic (egressive) one.

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The phonetics of implosives

LABIAL

•

PALATAL

•

UVULAR

•

•

ALVEOLAR

•

VELAR

VOICED •

VOICELESS •

• VOICED

• VOICELESS