ingressive in English
adjective
1
of or relating to ingress; having the quality or character of entering.
2
(of a speech sound) made with an intake of air rather than an exhalation.
The letters c, q, and x are used for velaric ingressive stop consonants - clicks, as they are more usually known.
noun
1
an ingressive sound, e.g., a click.
Like glottalic egressives, there are typically only a few glottalic ingressives in those languages which have them, most consonants are pulmonic egressive.
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