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title: Glottal Stop
aliases: [glottal stop, glottal, apostrophe]
tags: [term]
category: Sounds
summary: The catch-in-the-throat consonant written with an apostrophe (').

Glottal Stop

A glottal stop is the little catch in the throat in the middle of English "uh-oh." It's written with an apostrophe (').

In OVP, a noun ending in a glottal stop takes the object suffix -eika (e.g. isha'-eika) rather than -neika.

See also Sounds and Spelling.

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