Faucalized voice

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Phonation
Glottal states (from open to closed)
voiceless (full airstream)
breathy voice (murmur)
whisper
slack voice
modal voice (maximum vibration)
stiff voice
creaky voice (restricted airstream)
glottalized (blocked airstream)
Supra-glottal phonation
faucalized voice ("hollow")
harsh voice ("pressed")
strident (harsh trilled)
Vocal registers
whistle
falsetto
modal
vocal fry

Faucalized voice, also called hollow or yawny voice, is the production of speech sounds with an expanded laryngeal cavity. It contrasts with harsh voice, in which the larynx is compressed.

There is no symbol for faucalized voice in the standard IPA. Diacritics seen in the literature include the strong articulation diacritic ([a͈]) of the Extensions to the IPA. In the IPA extensions themselves, the symbol for faucalized voice is ^Ħ, as in [a^Ħ].

A well known language with faucalized voice is Korean, with its "tense" consonants. The entire vocal tract is tense, and the occlusion lasts longer than other consonants. For this reason they are often called fortis. There also appears to be elements of stiff voice in the Korean consonants, though faucalized voice is not yet well enough described to know how common this is.

Voice	tenuis	aspirated	faucalized
Korean	[tal]	[tʰal]	[t͈al]
	moon	mask	daughter

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, [a͈], and underlining for harsh voice, [a]. Examples are,

Voice	modal	breathy	harsh	faucalized
Bor Dinka	ʨìt̪	ʨì̤t̪	ʨìt̪	ʨì͈t̪
	diarrhea	go ahead	scorpions	to swallow