A voiceless uvular affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are and . The tie bar may be omitted, yielding .
Features Features of a voiceless uvular affricate:
Occurrence
Uvular Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Alemannic Most High and Highest Alemannic dialects 'present' Velar in other dialects. Adyghe Natukhai / ٯّە 'grave' Dialectal. Corresponds to in other dialects. Avar / 'bush' Contrasts with the ejective . Chechen 'Wednesday' Chukchi / 'two' Allophone of . English Scouse clock 'clock' Possible word-final realization of .GeorgianSome dialectsაფხაზეთი[apʰq͡χazetʰi]'Abkhazia'Only after bilabial stops. Otherwise . Kabardian / 'grave' Persian Some dialects 'lock' Lenition of word-initial . Rendille 'forgotten' Only after nasal consonants. Otherwise .
Pre-uvular There is also a voiceless pre-uvular affricateInstead of "pre-uvular", it may be called "advanced uvular", "fronted uvular", "post-velar", "retracted velar" or "backed velar". For simplicity, this article uses the term "pre-uvular". reported for Uzbek, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulation of a prototypical voiceless uvular affricate, though not as front as the prototypical voiceless velar affricate. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for that sound, though it can be transcribed as or (both symbols denote an advanced ) or (retracted ).
Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Uzbek / 'dry' Allophone of in word-final and preconsonantal positions.
See also Index of phonetics articles
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