Talk:Epiglottal consonant

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[edit] IPA?

I don't see a column for epiglottals in the official IPA chart. How do we have IPA symbols, then? Or is there another publication out there that expands on the chart on their site?

They are included under 'other symbols' because they were historically not considered important enough to warrant a column of their own. The IPA chart used to be even more Euro-centric. It's gotten better, but still isn't quite universal. It would be misleading to leave epiglottals out of the chart as the IPA (association) does when there's no linguistic reason to do so. kwami 05:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Ah, thank you, that explains it. --CRGreathouse 13:22, 6 May 2006 (UTC)