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The voiced uvular nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɴ , a small capital version of the Latin letter n ; the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N\ .
Nasal clicks are click consonants pronounced with nasal airflow.All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex ‼, and labial ʘ) have nasal variants, and these are attested in four or five phonations: voiced, voiceless, aspirated, murmured (breathy voiced), and—in the analysis of Miller (2011)—glottalized.
Ingressive speech sounds are produced while the speaker breathes in, in contrast to most speech sounds, which are produced as the speaker breathes out. The air that is used to voice the speech is drawn in rather than pushed out. Ingressive speech can be glottalic, velaric, or pulmonic.
Voiced retroflex nasal; Voiced retroflex plosive; Voiced retroflex trill; Voiced upper-pharyngeal plosive; Voiced uvular affricate; Voiced uvular fricative; Voiced uvular lateral approximant; Voiced uvular nasal; Voiced uvular plosive; Voiced uvular tap and flap; Voiced uvular trill; Voiced velar affricate; Voiced velar approximant; Voiced ...
There are several viral infections that can affect the throat and uvula, many of which also cause cold symptoms (runny nose, cough, laryngitis). “Some viruses, like coxsackie (hand, foot, and ...
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]).
Messing up pronunciations can be a source of both annoyance and amusement, but language learning platform Babbel has put together a handy guide to stop you putting your foot in it.