喉音 (hóu yīn) — glottal sound; guttural sound

Definition

In linguistics, 喉音 refers to sounds produced in the larynx (especially glottal or guttural sounds like [h] or the glottal stop). 舌音 refers to tongue-positioned sounds — these are technical phonetics terms, not everyday vocabulary.

noun

glottal soundguttural sound

Examples

喉音。
Yǒu xiē yǔ yán zhōng yǒu hěn duō hóu yīn.
Some languages have many glottal sounds.
喉音。
Tā fā zhè ge hóu yīn de shí hou hěn chī lì.
He has difficulty producing this guttural sound.
喉音。
Hàn yǔ pīn yīn zhōng méi yǒu hóu yīn.
There are no glottal sounds in Hanyu Pinyin.

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