0 a speech sound produced by closing the vocal cords and then opening them quickly so that the air from the lungs is released with force --
If no oral gesture was detected, the glottal gesture was further classified as either a glottal fricative or a glottal stop.
In use of the glottal stop, we note an increasing use suggested for (p) and a persistent use suggested for (k).
However, the same is true of glottals, especially glottal stop.
In contrast, the general epenthetic consonant of the language is glottal stop.
In such a pattern, nasal harmony would be facilitated by substituting a nasal or glottal stop for an obstruent stop or by deleting the latter.
The occurrence of the glottal stop is an automatic result of phonetic implementation, which cannot give rise to phonological contrast.
Note that the prevocalic insertion of the glottal stop is not limited to word-initial positions and is thus more indicative of morphemic than word boundaries.
These letters have quasistandard names as well, which is a simplified form that omits the final glottal stop.