ejective
Serving to eject, or characterised by ejectionServing to eject, or characterised by ejection.
» An alveolar ejective has voiceless phonation, meaning it is produced without vocal cord vibration.
Vanilla · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(not comparable)Serving to eject, or characterised by ejection.
Examples
2 sentencesAn alveolar ejective has voiceless phonation, meaning it is produced without vocal cord vibration.
Ejective consonants occur more often in languages from mountainous regions.
deEjektive finden sich häufiger in Sprachen aus Bergregionen. — Yorwba · CC BY 2.0 FR
Word family
2 related wordsSee also
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