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Epiglottal flap

An epiglottal flap is not known to exist as a phoneme in any language. However, it exists as a voiced allophone of the voiceless epiglottal plosive , found between vowels in Dahalo and perhaps other languages.

There is no dedicated symbol for this sound in the IPA, but it can be transcribed by adding the voicing and short diacritics to the symbol for the plosive, . (This is unlikely to display properly on your browser; the short diacritic is .)



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