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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.
Although traditionally placed in the fricative row of the IPA chart, [ʕ] is usually an approximant. The IPA symbol itself is ambiguous, but no language is known to make a phonemic distinction between fricatives and approximants at this place of articulation. The approximant is sometimes specified as [ʕ̞] or as [ɑ̯].
Features of the voiced pharyngeal approximant fricative:
Pharyngeal consonants are not widespread. Sometimes, a pharyngeal approximant develops from a uvular approximant. Many languages that have been described as having pharyngeal fricatives or approximants turn out on closer inspection to have epiglottal consonants instead. For example, the candidate /ʕ/ sound in Arabic and standard Hebrew (not modern Hebrew – Israelis of eastern European background generally pronounce this as a glottal stop) has been variously described as a voiced epiglottal fricative, an epiglottal approximant,[1] or a pharyngealized glottal stop.[2]
Manner of articulation, Labial consonant, Palatal consonant, Epiglottal consonant, Phonation
Arabic language, Israel, Jerusalem, Hebrew alphabet, Ethnologue
E, Hebrew alphabet, O, C, Syriac alphabet
Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Tunisian Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic
Place of articulation, Manner of articulation, ɾ̼, International Phonetic Alphabet, Sibilant consonant
Hebrew language, Ṣ, Close-mid back rounded vowel, Near-open front unrounded vowel, Shewā
Voiceless alveolar sibilant, Voiceless velar stop, Hebrew language, Voiceless bilabial stop, Voiced bilabial stop