glottal

Etymology

glottis + -al

adj

  1. Of or relating to the glottis.
  2. (phonetics) Articulated with the glottis.
    Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap … and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication. 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256

noun

  1. (linguistics) A sound made with the glottis

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