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Within Vinony's link graph, voiceless velar stop is referenced by 4,085 other articles, and connects out to voiced alveolar lateral approximant, voiced alveolar nasal and voiceless alveolar fricative.
It sits within the topics Median consonants, Pulmonic consonants and Velar consonants.
Its subject is documented across 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Entity decimal
- & #107;
- Unicode hex
- U+006B
- X sampa
- k
- Braille
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- central consonant
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- IPA transcription
- k
- X-SAMPA code
- k
- Kirshenbaum code
- k
- IPA Braille
- ⠅
- RFE symbol
- k
- catalog code
- 109
- different from
- voiced velar stop
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Encyclopedic overview
A voiceless velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "k" sound in "skip". The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨k⟩.
A [k] sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically. Most languages have at least a plain [k], and some distinguish more than one variety. Many languages also have a two-way contrast between aspirated and plain [k]. Only a few languages lack a voiceless velar plosive, e.g. North Azerbaijani, Tahitian, and Mongolian.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “voiceless velar stop” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.