Duhumbi Phonology - Glottal Stop and Glottal Constriction

The phonologic position of the glottal stop /ʔ/ in Duhumbi is elusive. The glottal stop and glottal

constriction are clearly phonetic features among all speakers of all varieties of the language.

However, there is no convincing evidence that it occurs as a distinctive phoneme. Rather, the glottal

stop co-occurs as a glottal closure on onset vowels /a, e, i, o/, as a sub-phonemic feature combined

with creaky voice and rising pitch on certain open vowels /a, e, o, u/, or as allophone of the plosives,

mainly the velar plosive /k/, in coda position in certain phonotactic environments.

This file presents an overview of the position of the glottal stop and glottal constriction in Duhumbi and presents some of the recordings that form the basis of it.

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