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When the epiglottal co-articulation becomes a Trill , the vowels are called Strident .

There is no symbol for harsh voice in the IPA . Diacritics seen in the literature include the under-tilde used for Creaky Voice , the double under-tilde used as the ''ad hoc'' diacritic for strident vowels, and an ''ad hoc'' underline. In the Extended IPA the symbol is !, as in , but this is ambiguous with the release of Alveolar Click .

The Bai Language has both harsh ("pressed") and strident vowels as part of its register system, but they are not contrastive.

The Bor dialect of Dinka has contrastive modal, breathy, faucalized, and harsh voice in its vowels, as well as three tones. The ''ad hoc'' diacritics employed in the literature are a subscript double quotation mark for faucalized voice, , and underlining for harsh voice, . Examples are,


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