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Dictionary of language and linguistics 572initiationairstream mechanisminitiveingressiveinjectionfunctioninjective [Lat. inicere ‘to throw in’]Ingressive speech sound formed with the pharyngeal airstream mechanism. While thelarynx is raised in an ejective, it is lowered in an injective. As in an ejective, the glottis isclosed and the vocal chords are unable to vibrate. Implosives are similar to injectives.( also articulatory phonetics, speech sound)phoneticsReferencesinjunctive [Lat. iniungere ‘to impose’]1 Collective term for all linguistic constructions which express a ‘command’ such as theimperative.2 In Indo-European linguistics, verb forms which are not specified in respect to tenseor mood, e.g. without an augment. It is used in the older Indo-European languages (e.g.in the earliest documents of Indo-Iranian) for the mere mention of an action, forexample.