phonetics

(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.

The audible friction of voice consonants.

Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.

A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.

The breve below as in ḫ.

Of or relating to a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together, compressing the vocal folds.

Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.

A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.

Used to signify a puffing sound

A letter of the Old English alphabet, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.

Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.

The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.

(Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

The act of one who stammers.

A word having the same spelling as another, but a different pronunciation and meaning.

To pronounce.

To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/). This is a speech impediment common among children.

A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.

The action of aspirating.

The letter د in the Arabic script.