The voiceless uvular stop is a consonant used in some spoken languages.
The letter for it in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨q⟩. This sound is not in the English language but is similar to [k], represented by the "k" in king and the "c" in cat.
Voiceless uvular plosive | |
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IPA number | 111 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | q |
Unicode (hex) | U+0071 |
X-SAMPA | q |
Kirshenbaum | q |
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning |
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Adyghe | хъацӀа/kh"atsḥa | [qat͡sʼa] | 'rooster' |
Arabic | قط/qiṭṭ | [qitˤː] | 'cat' |
Bashkir | ҡаҙ / qað | [qɑð] | 'goose' |
Chechen | кхоъ / qo’ | [qɔʔ] | 'three' |
Greenlandic | illoqarpoq | [iɬːoqɑʁpɔq] | 'he has a house' |
Inuktitut | ᐃ"ᐃᑉᕆᐅᖅᑐᖅ / ihipqiuqtuq’ | [ihipɢiuqtuq] | 'explore' |
Somali | qaab | [qaːb] | 'shape' |
Tlingit | ghagw | [qɐ́kʷ] | 'tree spine' |
Urdu | بَرق/barq | [bərq] | 'lightning' |
Uyghur | ئاق / aq | [ɑq] | 'white' |
Uzbek | qo'l | [q̟oɫ] | 'arm' |
Yupik | meq | [məq] | 'fresh water' |
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