Pharyngeal consonant

A pharyngeal consonant is a type of consonant which is articulated with the root of the tongue against the pharynx.

Pharyngeal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA):

IPA	Description	Example
		Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
	voiced pharyngeal fricative	Mishnaic Hebrew	עין		the letter ʿáyin
	voiceless pharyngeal fricative	Mishnaic Hebrew	חית	[ħeːθ]	the letter ḥêṯ

See also

• Place of articulation
• List of phonetics topics