Uvular Consonant - Uvular Consonants in IPA

Uvular Consonants in IPA

The uvular consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
uvular nasal Japanese 日本 Nihon Japan
voiceless uvular stop Kazakh Қазақ Qazaq Kazakh
voiced uvular stop Inuktitut utirama because I return
voiceless uvular fricative Castilian Spanish enjuto skinny
voiced uvular fricative Lakhota (LLC orthography) aǧúyapi bread
uvular trill French (Standard Paris Dialect) Paris Paris
uvular ejective Quechua q'allu tomato sauce
voiced uvular implosive Mam fire

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