An epiglottal consonant is a consonant that is articulated with the epiglottis against the back of the pharynx.

The epiglottal consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA	Description	Example
		Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
	epiglottal plosive
	voiced epiglottal fricative
	voiceless epiglottal fricative

See also

• Place of articulation
• List of phonetics topics