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The voiced pharyngeal approximant or fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʕ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ?\. Epiglottals and epiglotto-pharyngeals are often mistakenly taken to be pharyngeal.
A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of [f]; the back of the tongue against the soft palate in the case of German [x] (the final consonant of Bach); or the side of the tongue against the molars, in the case of Welsh [ɬ] (appearing twice in the ...
The grave accent (`) stands for the letter ayin, aka voiced pharyngeal fricative, a throaty sound The apostrophe (') stands for the hamza/glottal stop, like the oh sound in uh-oh (a'o) ḥ is the voiceless pharyngeal fricative, another throaty sound
