The other is the use of "plain laryngeal" and "emphatic laryngeal" instead of "glottal" and "epiglottal", which took me a long time to figure out -- but at least the distinctions between glottal, epiglottal and pharyngeal are made at all!. From Wordnik.com. [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference
They are mostly concerned with mastering the hypnotic epiglottal tone that entrances the bottom feeders, sort of like the eerie tones that only canines can hear. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Hill Coffee House] Reference
He even has the diphthongs down, the epiglottal stops, everything. ". From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
"And so you've stuffed yourself as full of verbs and prepositional phrases and epiglottal stops as a grilled pepper!. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
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