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Key facts
- Entity decimal
- & #107;
- Unicode hex
- U+006B
- X sampa
- k
- Braille
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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.