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The term stiff voice describes the pronunciation of consonants or vowels with a glottal opening narrower, and the vocal cords stiffer, than occurs in modal voice. Although there is no specific IPA diacritic for stiff voice, the voicing diacritic (a subscript wedge) may be used in conjunction with the symbol for a voiced consonant.^[1] In Bru, for example, stiff-voiced vowels have tenseness in the glottis and pharynx without going so far as to be creaky voiced, whereas slack-voiced vowels are lax in the glottis without going so far as to be breathy voice.^[2]

One language with stiff voice is Thai ^[1]

phonation	Thai	IPA	trans.	Thai	IPA	translation
stiff voice	บ้า	[b̬âː]	crazy	ด่า	[d̪̬àː]	curse, scold
tenuis	ป้า	[pâː]	aunt	ตา	[t̪āː]	eye
aspirated	ผ้า	[pʰâː]	cloth	ท่า	[t̪ʰâː]	landing place

Javanese contrasts stiff and slack voiced bilabial, dental, retroflex, and velar stops^[1]

phonation	IPA	trans.	IPA	trans.	IPA	translation	IPA	trans.	IPA	trans.
stiff voice	[b̬aku]	nail	[d̬amu]	guest	[d̬z̬ariʔ]	sheet (of paper)	[ɖ̬iɖ̬iʔ]	little	[ɡ̌ali]	river
slack voice	[b̥aku]	standard	[d̥amu]	blow	[d̥z̥arit]	(type of women's clothing)	[ɖ̥isiʔ]	first	[ɡ̊ali]	dig

Mpi (Loloish) contrasts modals and stiff voice in its vowels. This is not register: for each of the six Mpi tones, a word may have either a modal or stiff-voiced vowel. For example, low tone contrasts /sì/ 'blood' and /sì̬/ 'seven'.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19815-6.
^ Gordon & Ladefoged, 2001. "Phonation types: A cross-linguistic overview", Journal of Phonetics 29:383–406

[SOWL96-1] Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19815-6.

[2] Gordon & Ladefoged, 2001. "Phonation types: A cross-linguistic overview", Journal of Phonetics 29:383–406

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-The term '''stiff voice''' describes the pronunciation of consonants or vowels with a [[glottal opening]] narrower, and the [[vocal cords]] stiffer, than occurs in [[modal voice]]. Although there is no specific [[IPA]] [[diacritic]] for stiff voice, the voicing diacritic (a subscript wedge) may be used in conjunction with the symbol for an [[voiced consonant]].<ref name="SOWL96">{{SOWL}}</ref> In [[Bru language|Bru]], for example, stiff-voiced vowels have tenseness in the glottis and pharynx without going so far as to be [[creaky voice]]d, whereas slack-voiced vowels are lax in the glottis without going so far as to be [[breathy voice]].<ref>Gordon & Ladefoged, 2001. "[http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/gordon/phonation.pdf Phonation types: A cross-linguistic overview]", ''Journal of Phonetics'' 29:383–406</ref>
+The term '''stiff voice''' describes the pronunciation of consonants or vowels with a [[glottal opening]] narrower, and the [[vocal cords]] stiffer, than occurs in [[modal voice]]. Although there is no specific [[IPA]] [[diacritic]] for stiff voice, the voicing diacritic (a subscript wedge) may be used in conjunction with the symbol for a [[voiced consonant]].<ref name="SOWL96">{{SOWL}}</ref> In [[Bru language|Bru]], for example, stiff-voiced vowels have tenseness in the glottis and pharynx without going so far as to be [[creaky voice]]d, whereas slack-voiced vowels are lax in the glottis without going so far as to be [[breathy voice]].<ref>Gordon & Ladefoged, 2001. "[http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/gordon/phonation.pdf Phonation types: A cross-linguistic overview]", ''Journal of Phonetics'' 29:383–406</ref>
 One language with stiff voice is [[Thai language|Thai]] <ref name="SOWL96"/>