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Emphatic Consonant
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Emphatic Consonant 

a consonant with an extra articulatory characteristic produced by an increase in glottal laryngeal tension upon articulation. Emphatic consonants in Semitic languages are produced by pharyngealization.
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Lexicographers and linguists must be systematic in their approach to the problem, and have devised a variety of systems that rely on special symbols, unusual conventions of capitalization (illustrated in this article by transliteration of the emphatic consonants with capital letters, described below), or extensive use of diacriticals.
Rendering the language of Daad by Hargraves, Orin / Verbatim
 
 
 
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