noun
- consonant sounds produced by drawing air inward into the mouth rather than pushing it outward
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- The linguist studied implosives in several African languages.
- Implosives are rare in English but common in some other languages.
- Students learned to distinguish between implosives and regular consonants.
- The phonetics textbook included a chapter on implosives.
- Some languages use implosives as distinctive speech sounds.
- The researcher recorded native speakers producing implosives.