Draft:Voiced nasal glottal approximant

Voiced nasal glottal approximant
ɦ̃

The voiced nasal glottal approximant or "nasalized voiced glottal fricative"[1][2] is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɦ̃⟩, that is an h with hook and tilde.

Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Arabela
Basque[3][4]
Hindi[5] Allophone of /ɦ/.[5]
Igbo
Swazi
Sundanese[6] Allophone of /h/[6]
UMbundu[7][8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "CLTS 2.3.0 - Sound ɦ̃".
  2. ^ "CLTS 2.3.0 - consonant feature - place: Glottal".
  3. ^ "Different distributions of contrastive vowel nasalization in Basque". Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  4. ^ Egurtzegi, Ander (2015-06-30). "Different distributions of contrastive vowel nasalization in Basque". Loquens. 2 (1): e017. doi:10.3989/loquens.2015.017. ISSN 2386-2637.
  5. ^ a b "PHOIBLE 2.0 - Consonant ɦ".
  6. ^ a b "Phoible 2.0 -". Archived from the original on 2023-03-27. Retrieved 2025-09-03.
  7. ^ Garellek, Marc; Chai, Yuan; Huang, Yaqian; Doren, Maxine Van (19 July 2021). "Voicing of glottal consonants and non-modal vowels". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 53 (2): 305–332. doi:10.1017/S0025100321000116. ISSN 0025-1003.
  8. ^ Garellek, Marc; Chai, Yuan; Huang, Yaqian; Van Doren, Maxine. "(preprint hosted at UCSD) Voicing of glottal consonants and non-modal vowels" (PDF).