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Meaning ɴ̥: voiceless uvular nasal: Lamo [example needed] ɴ: voiced uvular nasal: Bai (Luobenzhuo dialect) [2] 我/nò [ɴɔ˦˨] ' I ' q: voiceless uvular plosive: Arabic: قصّةٌ qiṣṣatun [qisˤˈsˤɑtun] ' a story ' ɢ: voiced uvular plosive: Inuktitut: utirama [ʔutiɢama] ' because I return ' q͡χ: voiceless uvular affricate ...
The voiceless uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is less common than its voiced counterpart . The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʀ̥ , a small capital version of the Latin letter r with a ring diacritic indicating voicelessness .
Its place of articulation is uvular, which means it is articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum) at the uvula. Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
The attested voiceless implosive stops are: voiceless bilabial implosive [ɓ̥] or [ƥ] voiceless alveolar implosive [ɗ̥ ] or [ƭ] voiceless retroflex implosive [ᶑ̥ ] or [𝼉] voiceless palatal implosive [ʄ̥ ] or [ƈ ] voiceless velar implosive [ɠ̊ ] or [ƙ] (may be paraphonemic in English) voiceless uvular implosive [ʛ̥ ] or [ʠ ]
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 .
The voiceless uvular nasal is an extremely rare type of consonantal sound, used in very few spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɴ̥ , a combination of the letter for the voiced uvular nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness .
A partially devoiced uvular or pre-uvular (i.e. between velar and uvular) trill [ʀ̝̊] with some frication occurs as a coda allophone of /ʀ/ in the Limburgish dialects of Maastricht and Weert. [6] [7] Voiceless trills occur phonemically in e.g. Welsh and Icelandic. (See also voiceless alveolar trill, voiceless retroflex trill, voiceless ...
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, uvularization can be indicated by the symbol ʶ (a superscript voiced uvular fricative (inverted small capital R)) after the letter standing for the consonant that is uvularized, as in [tʶ] (the uvularized equivalent of [t]).