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    The voiced velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced velar lateral approximant
    The voiced velar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used as a distinct consonant in a very small number of spoken languages in the world...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced labial–velar approximant
    The voiced labial–velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in certain spoken languages, including English. It is the sound denoted by the...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiceless velar fricative
    is best transcribed as ⟨x̞⟩, ⟨ɣ̞̊⟩ or ⟨ɣ̊˕⟩ - see voiced velar approximant. The velar approximant can in many cases be considered the semivocalic equivalent...
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  • labial–velar consonants, which are doubly articulated at the velum and at the lips, such as [k͡p]. This distinction disappears with the approximant consonant...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced velar fricative
    for a velar approximant, [ɰ]. There is also a voiced post-velar fricative, also called pre-uvular, in some languages. For the voiced pre-velar fricative...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiceless labial–velar fricative
    The voiceless labial–velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced retroflex approximant
    The voiced retroflex approximant is a type of consonant used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced labial–palatal approximant
    The voiced labial–palatal (or labio-palatal) approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages, for example, French huitième, read...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced palatal approximant
    The voiced palatal approximant is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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  • Polish, in all three of these resulting in voiced velar approximant [ɰ] or voiced labio-velar approximant [w], whence Modern French sauce as compared...
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  • often described as a non-labialized voiced velar fricative; some texts note a correspondence between this approximant and /ɨ/ that is parallel to /j/–/i/...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced alveolar and postalveolar approximants
    remarkably similar to the postalveolar approximant and can be described as a voiced labial pre-velar approximant with tongue-tip retraction. It can be...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiceless velar lateral fricative
    voiceless velar lateral approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as ⟨ʟ̥⟩. Features of the voiceless velar lateral...
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  • The voiced uvular lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in the English language. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced labiodental fricative
    Icelandic or Norwegian the voiced labiodental fricative is in a free variation with the labiodental approximant. Features of the voiced labiodental fricative:...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced velar plosive
    The voiced velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. Some languages have the voiced pre-velar plosive, which...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced uvular fricative
    official IPA practice. For a voiced pre-uvular fricative (also called post-velar), see voiced velar fricative. Features of the voiced uvular fricative: Its manner...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced labiodental approximant
    as an approximant ([ʋ̥]), it is also an example of a language contrasting voiceless and voiced labiodental approximants. Features of the voiced labiodental...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced retroflex lateral approximant
    The voiced retroflex lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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  • term that can also refer to labialized velars, such as the stop consonant [kʷ] and the approximant [w]. Labial-velars are often written as digraphs. In the...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced velar nasal
    The voiced velar nasal, also known as eng, engma, or agma (from Greek ἆγμα âgma 'fragment'), is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages...
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  • the voiced approximant [w]. It is normally a labialized velar, as is its vocalic cousin [u]. (Labialization is called rounding in vowels, and a velar place...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants
    The voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants are a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced palatal lateral approximant
    The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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    can in many cases be considered the vocalic equivalent of the voiced velar approximant [ɰ]. Thus this vowel can also be transcribed as ⟨ɰ̍⟩, and the semivowel...
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    state that "the airflow for voiced approximants remains laminar (smooth), and does not become turbulent". The approximant may be represented in the IPA...
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    Sámi, G with stroke denotes the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/.: 38  It is sometimes pronounced as a voiced velar approximant /ɰ/ instead. It appears word-medially...
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  • The voiced velar lateral tap is an allophone of the velar lateral approximant in some languages of New Guinea, such as Kanite and Melpa. The extremely...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiceless palatal fricative
    sound is ⟨ j̊ ⟩, the voiceless homologue of the voiced palatal approximant. The palatal approximant can in many cases be considered the semivocalic equivalent...
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