Voiceless uvular plosive

The voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive , 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 Template:Angbr IPA, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is q.

There is also the voiceless pre-uvular plosive 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 prototypical velar consonant. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for that sound, though it can be transcribed as Template:Angbr IPA or Template:Angbr IPA (both symbols denote an advanced Template:Angbr IPA) or Template:Angbr IPA (retracted Template:Angbr IPA). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are q_+ and k_-, respectively.

Features

File:Voiceless uvular plosive.svg

Features of the voiceless uvular stop:

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Abaza		/Template:Transliteration		'man'
Adyghe		/Template:Transliteration	{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "Ady-атакъэ.oga" not found}}Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler	'rooster'
AleutTemplate:Sfnp		/		'grass'
Arabic	Modern StandardTemplate:Sfnp	/Template:Transliteration	{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "Ar-قط.ogg" not found}}Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler	'cat'	See Arabic phonology
	Hejazi	/Template:Transliteration		'peak'	Allophone of . See Hejazi Arabic phonology
	GulfTemplate:Sfnp	/Template:Transliteration		'tomorrow'	Corresponds to in other dialects.
	Algerian
Assyrian		/Template:Transliteration		'for'	Often realized as a tense /k/Template:Vague rather than uvular /q/.
Archi		/Template:Transliteration		'human skin'
Avá-CanoeiroTemplate:Sfnp				'this'	Possible realisation of . In the speech of people aged 40 to 80 years, the consonant is in free variation with , and in post-tonic or primarily or secondarily stressed syllables.Template:Sfnp
Bashkir		/	{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "Ba-ҡаҙ.ogg" not found}}Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler	'goose'
Chechen		/Template:Transliteration		'three'
Chukchi			[nət͡ʃəmjəqen]	'bitter'
Crimean Tatar		/Template:Transliteration		'Crimea'
Dawsahak				'dry'
English	AustralianTemplate:Sfnp	caught		'caught'	Pre-uvular; allophone of before .Template:Sfnp See Australian English phonology
	Multicultural LondonTemplate:Sfnp	cut		'cut'	Allophone of before non-high back vowels.
	Non-local Dublin	back		'back'	Allophone of after a retracted vowel for some speakers.
Eyak				'wolf'
German	Chemnitz dialectTemplate:Sfnp			'skirt'	In free variation with Template:IPAblink, Template:IPAblink, Template:IPAblink and Template:IPAblink.Template:Sfnp Does not occur in the coda.Template:Sfnp
Greenlandic				'he has a house'	See Greenlandic phonology
Hebrew	Biblical	/Template:Transliteration		'voice'	See Biblical Hebrew phonology
	Mizrahi				See Mizrahi Hebrew
	Shar'ab Temani	/Template:Transliteration			See Yemenite Hebrew
Hmong	White Hmong	Template:Script /		'old', 'ancient', 'outdated' or 'archaic'
Hungarian				'soot'	Possible allophone of /k/ before back vowels. See Hungarian phonology
Hindustani	Hindi	/Template:Transliteration		'lightning'	Mostly in Hindi–Urdu loanwords from Arabic, pronounced mainly in Urdu and by educated Hindi speakers, with rural Hindi speakers often pronouncing it as a Template:IPAblink. See Hindustani phonology
	Urdu	/Template:Transliteration
Ibaloi				'cloud'
Inuktitut		/		'explore'	See Inuit phonology
Iraqw				'break'
Kabardian		/Template:Transliteration	{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "къэбэрдей.ogg" not found}}Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler	'Kabardian'
Kabyle			{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "Kab-Taqbaylit.ogg" not found}}Template:Category handler	'Kabyle language'	May be voiced Template:IPAblink.
Kavalan				'elder brother'
Kazakh		/		'Kazakhstan'	An allophone of Template:IPAslink before back vowels
Ket				'begin'
Klallam				'iron'
Kurdish	Sorani	/		'School'	An allophone of Template:IPAslink before back vowels
	Kurmanji			'crustacean'	An allophone of Template:IPAslink before back vowels
Kutenai				'nine'
Kyrgyz		/		'Kyrgyzstan'	An allophone of Template:IPAslink before back vowels
Lishan Didan	Urmi Dialect	/Template:Transliteration		'foot, leg'
Maltese	Archaic Cottonera Dialect			'cat'
Malto		क़ान/qán		'eye'	Corresponds to /x/ in other North Dravidian languages.
Nez Perce				'I go to scoop him up in the fire'
Nivkh		/Template:Transliteration		'three'
Ossetian	Iron	/Template:Transliteration		'Vladikavkaz'
Persian	Early New Persian	/Template:Transliteration		'spoon'	May be allophonicly voiced to [ɢ] before a voiced stop. See Persian phonology.
	Dari standard
	Tajik standard	/Template:Transliteration
	Some Iranian speakers	/Template:Transliteration		'frog'	In Western Iranian dialects /q/ and /ɣ/ have merged into /ɢ/. Though some dialects in eastern Iran may preserve the distinction in some words. See Persian phonology.
QuechuaTemplate:Sfnp				'tongue'
Sahaptin		qu		'heavy'
Seediq				'Seediq'
Seereer-SiinTemplate:Sfnp		Template:Example needed	—	—
Shor				'shaman'
Somali				'shape'	See Somali phonology
St’át’imcets				'to touch'
Tlingit				'tree spine'	Tlingit contrasts six different uvular stops
Tatar		/Template:Transliteration		'from where?'
Tsimshian				'tobacco'
Turkmen				'white'	Allophone of /k/ next to back vowels
Ubykh		qhë		'grave'	One of ten distinct uvular stop phonemes. See Ubykh phonology
Uyghur		/		'white'
UzbekTemplate:Sfnp				'arm'	Pre-uvular; sometimes realized as an affricate Template:IPAblink.Template:Sfnp
Western Neo-Aramaic	Bakh'a	Template:Example needed			Pre-uvular, though in Ma'loula it is slightly more front.
	Ma'loula	Template:Example needed
Yup'ik				'fresh water'
Yukaghir	Northern	/Template:Transliteration		'one'
	Southern	/Template:Transliteration		'two'
!Xóõ			{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "ǀqhɑ́ː-.wav" not found}}Template:Category handler	'to smooth'

See also

• Guttural
• Index of phonetics articles
• Qoph
• ق
• Voiced uvular stop

External links

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