“I’m a PhD student in Historical Linguistics in Zürich, and I’ve got a glottal stop tattoo on the pinkie of my left hand. It is one of the letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet and ...

We can also pronounce the letter 't' as a glottal stop - /ʔ/. Some people do this in between vowel sounds, like in 'city' /sɪʔɪ/ and 'writing' /raɪʔɪŋ/. The glottal stop, the /ʔ/ sound ...

According to Eddington, most Americans T drop, but Utahns do it a little differently. “The T doesn’t actually disappear,” Eddington said. “It’s transformed into a glottal stop. What happens is you get ...

The symbol in Sahaiʔa's name is the glottal stop, an important one in Chipewyan that signifies both pronunciation and meaning. If the glottal stop were replaced with a different character ...