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Voiceless glottal fricative
The
voiceless glottal
fricative
, sometimes called
voiceless glottal transition
, and sometimes called the
aspirate
, is a type of sound used in some
spoken
languages
that patterns like a
fricative
or
approximant
consonant
phonologically
, but often lacks the usual
phonetic
characteristics of a consonant. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
that represents this sound is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA
symbol is
h
.
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