Pharyngeal

Definition

Pharyngeal sounds are produced through movement of the tongue root (active articular) moving back towards the pharynx (back of the throat) in order to make a constriction in the vocal tract (Zsiga, 2013).

Examples

• Hul’q’umi’num’
• Skwxwú7mesh: there are no pharyngeal phonemes in the Skwxwú7mesh language, according to Dyck (2004, p. 34).
• Secwepemctsin