How these sounds differ
ʔʷ
Voiceless Glottal Stop
- Voicing
- voiceless
- Place
- glottal
- Manner
- stop
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 1 / 500
ʔ̬
Voiced Glottal Stop
- Voicing
- voiced
- Place
- glottal
- Manner
- stop
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 1 / 500
Cross-linguistic distribution
1
Languages with ʔʷ
0
Languages with both
1
Languages with ʔ̬
0 languages in our database contrast both sounds as distinct phonemes. Languages that have one but not the other tend to merge them into a single phoneme — meaning speakers of those languages often struggle to hear the distinction when learning a language that contrasts them.