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    The voiced labialvelar 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 Voiced velar approximant
    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 Voiceless labial–velar fricative
    The voiceless labialvelar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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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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  • The nasal labialvelar approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some 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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  • The voiced labialvelar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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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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  • The voiced labialvelar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is a [ɡ] and [b] pronounced simultaneously and is considered...
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  • The voiced labialvelar implosive is a rare type of consonantal sound. It occurs in a few African languages, including the Central dialect of Igbo, Lese...
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  • a 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...
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  • voiced bilabial approximant. Lip rounding, or labialization, is a common approximant-like co-articulatory feature. English /w/ is a voiced labialized...
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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 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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    the voiced bilabial fricative /β/ between vowels in Early Medieval Latin. Therefore, ⟨V⟩ no longer adequately represented the voiced labial-velar approximant...
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  • Phoenician. Like its model, Phoenician waw, it represented the voiced labial-velar approximant /w/ and stood in the 6th position in the alphabet between epsilon...
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  • [w] refers to a labialvelar approximant. In phonology, labialization may also refer to a type of assimilation process. Labialization is the most widespread...
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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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  • The voiceless labialvelar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is a [k] and [p] pronounced simultaneously...
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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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  • voiceless labialized palatal fricative by those who consider it to be a fricative – is the voiceless counterpart of the voiced labial–palatal approximant. Other...
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  • in the Shughni and Wakhi languages, where it represents the voiced labialvelar approximant /w/, like the pronunciation of ⟨w⟩ in "wait". Ԝ ԝ: Cyrillic...
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  • cat) ejective velar lateral affricate [k͡𝼄ʼ] voiced labialized velar approximant [w] (witch) voiceless labialized velar approximant [ʍ] (which, in some...
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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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  • since labialization involves adding of a labial approximant articulation to a sound, and this ambiguous situation is often called labiovelar. A velar trill...
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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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  • 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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  • The voiceless labialvelar implosive is a rare type of consonantal sound. The sound exists in the Central dialect of Igbo. Its manner of articulation is...
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  • consonants plus labialization, ⟨ʷ⟩, as with the [sʲʷ] = [sᶣ] of Abkhaz or the [nʲʷ] = [nᶣ] of Akan. A voiced labialized palatal approximant [ɥ] occurs in...
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    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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