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For example, in the Chinese pinyin alphabet, qi is pronounced /tʃi/ (similar to "chi" in English) by an English speaker, as pinyin uses "q" to represent the sound [tɕʰ], which is approximated as (ch) in English. In other examples, Q represents in standard Arabic, such as in qat and faqir.
Resulting sound Examples /h/ h: between a preceding stressed and a following unstressed vowel: ∅: cf. "vehement, annihilate" after x: exhibitor /n/ n: before velars /k/ (c, ch, k, q) and /ɡ/ g /ŋ/ incubator, fungus /s/ s: between two vowels /z/ miser, Cæsar, Jesus: between a vowel and a voiced consonant: plasma, presbyter: after a voiced ...
uvular ejective affricate [q͜χʼ] alveolar lateral ejective affricate [t͜ɬʼ] velar lateral ejective affricate [k͜𝼄ʼ] Fricatives. bilabial ejective fricative [ɸʼ] [citation needed] labiodental ejective fricative [fʼ] dental ejective fricative [θʼ] alveolar ejective fricative [sʼ] palato-alveolar ejective fricative [ ʃʼ]
Some words contain silent letters, which do not represent any sound in modern English pronunciation. Examples include the l in talk, half, calf, etc., the w in two and sword, gh as mentioned above in numerous words such as though, daughter, night, brought, and the commonly encountered silent e (discussed further below).
Examples are [p] and [b], pronounced with the lips; [t] and [d], pronounced with the front of the tongue; [k] and [g], pronounced with the back of the tongue; [h], pronounced throughout the vocal tract; [f], [v], and [s], pronounced by forcing air through a narrow channel ; and [m] and [n], which have air flowing through the nose .
Examples include water, bottle, petal, peddle (the last two words sound alike when flapped). The flap may even appear at word boundaries, as in pu t i t on . When the combination /nt/ appears in such positions, some American speakers pronounce it as a nasalized flap that may become indistinguishable from /n/ , so winter [ˈwɪɾ̃ɚ] may be ...
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is q , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is q. There is also the voiceless pre-uvular plosive [ 1 ] in some languages, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical uvular consonant, though not as front as the ...
The Semitic sound value of Qôp was /q/ (voiceless uvular stop), and the form of the letter could have been based on the eye of a needle, a knot, or even a monkey with its tail hanging down. [2] [3] [4] /q/ is a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in many European languages.