A voiceless velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a combination of the letter for the voiced velar nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness. (For reasons of legibility, the ring is usually placed above the letter, rather than regular ).
Features
Features of a voiceless velar nasal:
Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Alutiiq 'sneeze once' See Alutiiq language. Burmese / 'borrow' Central Alaskan Yup'ik 'he will be a worker' Central Siberian Yupik '(you all) answer me!' Damin 'tobacco' Faroese 'anybody' Allophone of before an aspirated velar. See Faroese phonology Icelandic 'private life' Allophone of before an aspirated velar. See Icelandic phonology Pa Na 'leech' Scottish Gaelic 'bank' Allophone of before an aspirated velar Washo 'hillside sloping down' Welsh 'my coat' Occurs as the nasal mutation of . See Welsh phonology Xumi Lower 'camel' Occurs mostly in loanwords from Tibetan.
See also Index of phonetics articles
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