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voiceless uvular stop

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Also known as q, /q/, [q]

consonantal sound

Key facts

Entity decimal
& #113;
Unicode hex
U+0071
X sampa
q
Braille
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Encyclopedic overview

A voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k], except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨q⟩.

Features

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “voiceless uvular stop” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.