Voiceless_uvular_fricative Voiceless_uvular_fricative

Voiceless uvular fricative - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Alveolar, Apical, Assimilated, Back, Bad, Bare, Bilabial, Breathless, Central, Cerebral, Consonant, Dental
IPA - Unicode χ
IPA - image Image:Xsampa-x2.png
X-SAMPA X
Kirshenbaum X
Sound sample

The voiceless uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is χ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is X. Features of this consonant:

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