retracted tongue root
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An articulation involving retraction of the tongue root.
Example Sentences
- "The high back retracted tongue root vowel is always further back than its counterpart, rather than further forward, as is the case for the traditional lax back vowels."
- "/ʕ/ is typically realized as an epiglottal stop, gliding as a pharyngeal approximant into a following retracted-tongue-root vowel, as in [ʡˤʊ̙maː] ‘water flowing from a spout’."