Saturday 16 June 2012

Egressive and ingressive airflows


All speech sounds are formed by some movement of air.  In European languages for example, the air flows outwards from the lungs and through the oral cavity (egressive airflow) but in some African languages certain sounds are articulated by sucking air (ingressive airflow).

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