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Voiceless velar plosive

consonantal sound

The voiceless velar stop is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨k⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨k⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by the "c" in care and the "k" in kiss.

Voiceless velar plosive
k
IPA Number109
Encoding
Entity (decimal)k
Unicode (hex)U+006B
X-SAMPAk

Feeatures

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  • The airstream mechanism is pulmonic. This means that this sound is produced by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
  • The phonation is voiceless. This means that this sound is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
  • The place of articulation (where the sound is produced) is velar. This means that this sound is produced with the back of the tongue at the soft palate.
  • The manner of articulation (how the sound is produced) is stop, or plosive. This means that this sound is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. (The term plosive contrasts with nasal stops, where the blocked airflow is redirected through the nose.)See also: Voiced velar lateral stop

Examples

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Language Word IPA Meaning
Abkhaz ақалақь/ak̇halak̇h’ [ˈakalakʲ] 'the city'
Adyghe Shapsug кьэт/k′ėt  [kʲat] (help·info) 'chicken'
Temirgoy пскэн/pskėn [pskan]
Ahtna gistaann [kɪstʰɐːn] 'six'
Aleut[1] kiikax̂ [kiːkaχ] 'cranberry bush'
Arabic Modern Standard[2] كتب/kutib [ˈkatabɐ] 'he wrote'
Armenian Eastern[3] քաղաք/ k'aġak'/k'aghak [kʰɑˈʁɑkʰ] 'town'
Assamese কম/kom [kɔm] 'less'
Assyrian ܟܬܒ̣ܐ ctava [ktava] 'book'
Basque katu [kat̪u] 'cat'
Bengali কম/kom [kɔm] 'less'
Bulgarian как/kak [kak] 'how'
Catalan[4] cors [ˈkɔ(ɾ)s] 'hearts'
Chinese Cantonese 家 / gā  [kaː˥] 'home'
Hokkien 歌 koa [kua] 'song'
Mandarin 高 / gāo  [kɑʊ˥] 'high'
Chuvash кукка [ku'kːɑ] 'mother's brother'
Czech kost [kost] 'bone'
Danish Standard[5] gås [ˈkɔ̽ːs] 'goose'
Dutch[6] koning [ˈkoːnɪŋ] 'king'
English kiss  [kʰɪs] 'kiss'
Esperanto rakonto [raˈkonto] 'tale'
Estonian kõik [kɤik] 'all'
Filipino kuto [ˈkuto] 'lice'
Finnish kakku [kɑkːu] 'cake'
French[7] cabinet [kabinɛ] 'office'
Georgian[8] ქვა/kva [kʰva] 'stone'
German Käfig [ˈkʰɛːfɪç] 'cage'
Greek καλόγερος / kalógeros [kaˈlo̞ʝe̞ro̞s̠] 'monk'
Gujarati કાંદો/kaṃde [kɑːnd̪oː] 'onion'
Hebrew כסף / kesef [ˈkesef] 'money'
Hiligaynon kadlaw [kad̪law] 'laugh'
Hindustani काम / کام [kɑːm] 'work'
Hungarian akkor [ɒkkor] 'then'
Italian[9] casa [ˈkäːzä] 'house'
Japanese[10] 鞄 / kaban [kabaɴ] 'handbag'
Kagayanen[11] kalag [kað̞aɡ] 'spirit'
Khmer កម្ពុជា / kâmpŭchéa [kampuciːə] 'Cambodia'
Korean 감자 / kamja [kamdʑa] 'potato'
Lakota kimímela [kɪˈmɪmela] 'butterfly'
Luxembourgish[12] geess [ˈkeːs] 'goat'
Macedonian кој [kɔj] 'who'
Marathi कवच [kəʋət͡s] 'armour'
Malay kaki [käki] 'leg'
Nepali केरा [keɾä] 'banana'
Norwegian kake [kɑːkɛ] 'cake'
Odia କାମ/kāma [kämɔ] 'work'
Pashto كال/kal [kɑl] 'year'
Persian کارد/kārd [kɑrd] 'knife'
Polish[13] buk  [ˈbuk] (help·info) 'beech tree'
Portuguese[14] corpo [ˈkoɾpu] 'body'
Punjabi ਕਰ/کر/kar [kəɾ] 'do'
Romanian[15] când [ˈkɨnd] 'when'
Russian[16] короткий/korotkiy  [kɐˈrotkʲɪj] (help·info) 'short'
Serbo-Croatian[17] кост / kost [kȏːs̪t̪] 'bone'
Slovak kosť [kɔ̝stɕ] 'bone'
Spanish[18] casa [ˈkäsä] 'house'
Swedish ko [ˈkʰuː] 'cow'
Sylheti ꠇꠤꠔꠣ/kita [kɪt̪à] 'what'
Tamil கை/kai [kəɪ̯] 'hand'
Telugu కాకి/kāki [kāki] 'crow'
Thai ไก่/kị̀ [kaj˨˩] 'chicken'
Turkish kulak [kʰuɫäk] 'ear'
Ubykh кауар/kawar [kawar] 'slat'
Ukrainian[19] колесо/koleso [ˈkɔɫɛsɔ] 'wheel'
Vietnamese[20] cam [kam] 'orange'
Welsh calon [kalɔn] 'heart'
West Frisian keal [kɪəl] 'calf'
Yi ꇰ / ge [kɤ˧] 'foolish'
Zapotec Tilquiapan[21] canza [kanza] 'walking'

Notes

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  1. ↑ Ladefoged (2005), p. 165.
  2. ↑ Thelwall (1990), p. 37.
  3. ↑ Dum-Tragut (2009), p. 13.
  4. ↑ Carbonell & Llisterri (1992), p. 53.
  5. ↑ Basbøll (2005:61)
  6. ↑ Gussenhoven (1992), p. 45.
  7. ↑ Fougeron & Smith (1993), p. 73.
  8. ↑ Shosted & Chikovani (2006), p. 255.
  9. ↑ Rogers & d'Arcangeli (2004), p. 117.
  10. ↑ Okada (1999), p. 117.
  11. ↑ Olson et al. (2010), pp. 206–207.
  12. ↑ Gilles & Trouvain (2013:67–68)
  13. ↑ Jassem (2003), p. 103.
  14. ↑ Cruz-Ferreira (1995), p. 91.
  15. ↑ DEX Online : [1]
  16. ↑ Padgett (2003), p. 42.
  17. ↑ Landau et al. (1999), p. 66.
  18. ↑ Martínez-Celdrán, Fernández-Planas & Carrera-Sabaté (2003), p. 255.
  19. ↑ Danyenko & Vakulenko (1995), p. 4.
  20. ↑ Thompson (1959), pp. 458–461.
  21. ↑ Merrill (2008), p. 108.

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