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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