Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | хпа | 'three' | Contrasts with labialized and palatalized forms. See Abkhaz phonology | |||
| Adyghe | пхъэ | 'wood' | ||||
| Afrikaans | goed | 'good' | Some dialects. | |||
| Aleut | Atkan dialect | hatix̂ | 'ten' | |||
| Arabic | Standard | خبز | 'bread' | See Arabic phonology | ||
| Armenian | Eastern | խոտ | ‘grass’ | |||
| Avar | орх | 'to lift' | Contrasts with a tense form | |||
| Berber | Kabyle | axxam | 'house' | |||
| Chilcotin | ? | 'I made it' | ||||
| Dutch | Netherlandic | Scheveningen | 'Scheveningen' | Many central and western dialects. Corresponds to /ɣ/ and /x/ in standard Netherlandic Dutch. See Dutch phonology | ||
| The Hague | standaard | 'standard' | Traditional allophone of /ʀ/, occurring after vowels before consonants. | |||
| Eyak | da.x̣ | 'and' | ||||
| French | proche | 'nearby' | Allophone of /ʁ/ before or after voiceless obstruent. See French phonology | |||
| German | Lower Rhine | Wirte | 'hosts' | In free variation with between a vowel and a voiceless coronal consonant. | ||
| Standard | Dach | 'roof' | Appears only after certain back vowels. See German phonology | |||
| Swiss | mich | 'me' (acc.) | Some speakers, for others it's velar . Swiss German makes no distinction between /x/ and /ç/. | |||
| Haida | ḵ'aláax̂an | 'fence' | ||||
| Hebrew | אוכל | 'food' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | |||
| Kabardian | хъарзынэ | 'well' | ||||
| Klallam | sx̣aʔqʷaʔ | 'salmon backbone' | ||||
| Lakota | ȟóta | 'gray' | ||||
| Lezgian | хат | 'bead' | Contrasts with a labialized form | |||
| Ongota | 'bat' | |||||
| Oowekyala | 'the invisible one here with me will be short' | |||||
| Nez Perce | 'grizzly bear' | |||||
| Portuguese | Fluminense | anarquia | 'anarchy' | In free variation with, and before voiceless consonants. | ||
| General Brazilian | marrom | 'the color brown' | Some dialects, corresponds to rhotic consonant /ʁ/. See Portuguese phonology | |||
| Saanich | wexes | 'small frogs' | Contrasts with a labialized form | |||
| Scots | nicht | 'night' | ||||
| Seri | xeecoj | 'wolf' | Contrasts with a labialized form | |||
| Spanish | jugar | 'to play' | Allophone of /x/. See Spanish phonology | |||
| Swedish | Southern | sjuk | 'sick' | Variation of /ɧ/ used in areas influenced by languages like Arabic and Kurdish. See Swedish phonology | ||
| Tlingit | tlaxh | 'very' | Contrasts with labialized, ejective and labialized ejective form | |||
| Ubykh | 'I need to eat it' | Ubykh has ten different uvular fricatives. See Ubykh phonology | ||||
| Uyghur | یاخشی yaxshi | 'good' | ||||
| West Frisian | berch | 'mountain' | Never occurs in word-initial positions. | |||
| Yiddish | בוך | 'book' | See Yiddish phonology | |||
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