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The voiced uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɢ , a small capital version of the Latin letter g, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is G\. [ɢ] is a rare sound, even compared to other uvulars. [1]
Unlike other uvular consonants, the uvular trill is articulated without a retraction of the tongue, and therefore doesn't lower neighboring high vowels the way uvular stops commonly do. Several other languages, including Inuktitut , Abkhaz , Uyghur and some varieties of Arabic , have a voiced uvular fricative but do not treat it as a rhotic ...
Here are the features of the voiced uvular implosive: Its manner of articulation is occlusive , which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet , the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a plosive .
The duration between the release of the plosive and the voice onset is called the voice onset time (VOT) or the aspiration interval. Highly aspirated plosives have a long period of aspiration, so that there is a long period of voiceless airflow (a phonetic [h] ) before the onset of the vowel.
pharyngealized voiceless uvular stop [qˤ] (in Ubykh, Tsakhur, and Archi) pharyngealized voiced uvular stop [ɢˤ] (in Tsakhur) pharyngealized glottal stop [ʔˤ] (in Shihhi Arabic; allophonic in Chechen) pharyngealized voiceless velar plosive [kˤ] (in Kurmanji) pharyngealized voiced velar plosive [ɡˤ] (in Sorani [4])
Additionally, in native words, [ɡ] occurs as an allophone of /k/ when it undergoes regressive voicing assimilation like in zakdoek [ˈzɑɡduk]. [5] In the north, /ɣ/ often devoices and merges with /x/; the quality of that merged sound has been variously described as a voiceless post-velar or uvular fricative. [6]
The features of the voiceless labial–uvular plosive are: Its manner of articulation is occlusive , which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet , the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a plosive .
The voiced uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʀ , a small capital version of the Latin letter r. This consonant is one of several collectively called guttural R.