Guttural

Guttural (from Latin guttur " throat " ) is a term for speech sounds that are formed in the throat. While the term is no longer used in phonetics because of its inaccuracy, it is in the various philologies partly still in use.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term was originally used for the uvular, pharyngeal and glottal sounds of Hebrew. The Indology one called lute with a velar articulation as guttural. While the term in the Hebrew language so designated no well-defined point, but according to current understanding as a collective term for various " far behind " educated lute served, is the designation in the Indian studies in the tradition of the ancient Indian grammarians, which the velar sounds as " कण्ठ्य "(engl.: -necked lute, guttural sounds ) designated.

The information about which articulation places can be described as guttural vary. Hadumod Bußmann called Postalveolare, palatals, velars and " sometimes " uvular. Helmut happiness called the Places of articulation of postpalatal to glottal. Otto von Essen (1979: 75) describes as a guttural " postpalatal, velar, uvular ".

Clarification: After Otto von Essen definition, the following sounds of the Germans were " guttural ": [k ], [ g], respect sound [ x], the uvular Vibrant [R ], the so-called glottal stop ( larynx plosive ) [ ʔ ] and [H]. In phonemes words, the phonemes / k /, / g /, / h / and an allophone [ x], the I -sound heard next to a common phoneme; also the allophone [R ], the other allophones together the phoneme / r / are again. The palatals are after of food not to be after Bußmann yet. The I -sound would be according to Bussmann's definition, a guttural, after but of happiness and of not eating.

Colloquially principally particularly " throaty " sounding sounds are referred to as guttural, regardless of the exact place of articulation. As an example, the Oxford English Dictionary calls the German - Oh sound. Although the phonemes / g / and / k / at the same location are formed, but not perceived because of the lack of friction noise as " guttural ". This colloquial meaning of the word is also instrumental in the guttural vocals, which is used in particular by metal bands.