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  2. Aspirated consonant - Wikipedia

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    In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most South Asian languages and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.

  3. Sesotho orthography - Wikipedia

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    kh /kʰ/ fully aspirated: kill; occurring mostly in old loanwords from Nguni languages and in ideophones lekhokho the part of the pap that remains baked to the pot after cooking kg /x/ sekgo spider /k͡xʰ/ alternative to the velar fricative kgale a long time ago l /l/ never occurs before close vowels (/i/ or /u/), where it becomes /d/ selepe ...

  4. Voiceless velar plosive - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is k , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is k.

  5. Chi (letter) - Wikipedia

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    Its value in Ancient Greek was an aspirated velar stop /kʰ/ (in the Western Greek alphabet: /ks/). Koine Greek. ... but sometimes kh ...

  6. Allophone - Wikipedia

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    Nitrate: aspirated [ˈnaɪ.tʰɹ̥eɪt̚] or retracted [ˈnaɪ.t̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷeɪt̚] A flame that is held in front of the lips while those words are spoken flickers more for the aspirated nitrate than for the unaspirated night rate. The difference can also be felt by holding the hand in front of the lips.

  7. McCune–Reischauer - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, apostrophes were used only for aspiration marks and ë was not used in the South Korean system. ㄹㅎ was written as lh instead of rh. Assimilation-induced aspiration by an initial ㅎ is indicated. ㄱㅎ is written as kh in the original McCune–Reischauer system and as k ' in the South Korean variant.

  8. Voiceless uvular plosive - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k], except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula.

  9. Kha (Indic) - Wikipedia

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    Although it is derived from the Grantha letter kha, modern Sinhala no longer distinguishes between aspirated (Miśra) and unaspirated (Śuddha) consonants, and ඛ is pronounced the same as ක, ka, but is used for loanwords and in higher register writing. ඛ does not have any unique ligatures or conjunct forms, and displays an explicit virama ...