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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.
For example, the English velar consonant /k/ is fronted before the vowel /iː/ (as in keep) compared to articulation of /k/ before other vowels (as in cool). This fronting is called palatalization. The relative position of a sound may be described as advanced (fronted), retracted (backed), raised, lowered, centralized, or mid-centralized.
If distinction is necessary, the voiceless alveolo-palatal plosive may be transcribed as c̟ (advanced c ) or t̠ʲ (retracted and palatalized t ), but these are essentially equivalent, because the contact includes both the blade and body (but not the tip) of the tongue.
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In strict IPA, it needs to be transcribed with diacritics, but a proper letter exists in extIPA: k͜𝼄 . Archi , a Northeast Caucasian language of Dagestan , has two such affricates, plain [k𝼄] and labialized [k𝼄ʷ] , though they are further forward than velars in most languages, and might better be called prevelar .
In English orthography, the letter k normally reflects the pronunciation of [] and the letter g normally is pronounced /ɡ/ or "hard" g , as in goose, gargoyle and game; /d͡ʒ/ or "soft" g , generally before i or e , as in giant, ginger and geology; or /ʒ/ in some words of French origin, such as rouge, beige and genre.
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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter K. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars