• Source: Voiceless nasal glottal approximant

The voiceless nasal glottal approximant is a type of consonantal sound, a nasal approximant, used in some oral languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨h̃⟩, that is, an h with a tilde.




Occurrence


The h sound is nasalized in several languages, apparently due to a connection between glottal and nasal sounds called rhinoglottophilia. Examples of languages where the only h-like sound is nasalized are Krim, Lisu, and Pirahã.
More rarely, a language will contrast oral /h/ and nasal /h̃/. Two such languages are neighboring Bantu languages of Angola and Namibia, Kwangali and Mbukushu. In these languages, vowels following /h̃/ are nasalized, though nasal vowels do not occur elsewhere. A distinction is also reported from Wolaytta, though in that case the nasal is rare.




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External links


List of languages with [h̃] on PHOIBLE

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• Bahasa Selayar
• Bahasa Jah Hut
• Bahasa Fenisia
• Voiceless nasal glottal approximant
• Approximant
• Voiceless glottal fricative
• Voiceless labial–velar fricative
• Nasal palatal approximant
• Glottal consonant
• Voiced glottal fricative
• Voiceless velar fricative
• Glottal stop
• Voiceless bilabial nasal