Voiceless uvular stop
| Voiceless uvular stop | |
|---|---|
| q | |
| IPA number | 111 |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) |
q |
| Unicode (hex) | U+0071 |
| X-SAMPA |
q |
| Kirshenbaum |
q |
| Braille |
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| Sound | |
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The voiceless uvular stop or voiceless uvular plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like [k], except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨q⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is q.
For a voiceless pre-uvular stop (also called post-velar), see voiceless velar stop.
Features
Features of the voiceless uvular stop:
- Its manner of articulation is occlusive, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet, the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a stop.
- Its place of articulation is uvular, which means it is articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum) at the uvula.
- Its phonation is voiceless, which means it 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.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- The airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abaza | хъацIа | [qat͡sʼa] | 'man' | ||
| Adyghe | атакъэ |  [ataːqa] | 'rooster' | ||
| Aleut[1] | ҟи́гаҟъ / qiighax̂ | [qiːɣaχ] | 'grass' | ||
| Arabic | Standard[2] | قصر | [qɑsˤr] | 'palace' | See Arabic phonology |
| Assyrian Neo-Aramaic | [qa] | 'for' | Predominantly used. In the Urmian and Jilu varieties, /k/ is mostly used. | ||
| Archi | хъал | [qaːl] | 'human skin' | ||
| Bashkir | ҡайын | [qɑˈjɯ̞n] | 'birch tree' | ||
| Berber | Kabyle | aqcic | [aqʃiʃ] | 'boy' | |
| Chechen | кхоъ / qo’ | [qɔʔ] | 'three' | ||
| Dawsahak | [qoq] | 'dry' | |||
| English | Multicultural London[3][4] | cut | [qʌt] | 'cut' | Allophone of /k/ before back vowels.[4] |
| Non-local Dublin[5] | back | [bɑq] | 'back' | Allophone of /k/ after /æ/ for some speakers.[5] | |
| Eyak | g̣u.jih | [quːtʃih] | 'wolf' | ||
| Greenlandic | illoqarpoq | [iɬːoqaʁpɔq] | 'he has a house' | ||
| Hebrew | Iraqi | קול | [qol] | 'voice' | See Biblical Hebrew phonology |
| Hindustani | بَرق / बर्क़ | [bərq] | 'lightning' | Most speakers of Hindi do not pronounce [q] and assimilate it with [k], because [q] occurs in loanwords from Arabic. However, in Urdu, this is not the case. See Hindustani phonology | |
| Inuktitut | ᐃ"ᐃᑉᕆᐅᖅᑐᖅ ihipqiuqtuq’ | [ihipɢiuqtuq] | 'explore' | Represented by a ⟨ᖅ⟩. See Inuit phonology | |
| Iraqw | [qeːt] | 'break' | |||
| Kabardian | къабзэ | [qaːbza] | 'clean' | ||
| Kavalan | qaqa | [qaqa] | 'elder brother' | ||
| Kazakh | Қазақстан | [qɑzɑqˈstɑn] | 'Kazakhstan' | An allophone of /k/ before back vowels | |
| Ket | қан | [qan] | 'begin' | ||
| Klallam | qəmtəm | [qəmtəm] | 'iron' | ||
| Kutenai | qaykiťwu | [qajkitʼwu] | 'nine' | ||
| Nivkh | тяқр̆ | [tʲaqr̥] | 'three' | ||
| Persian | Kermani dialect | قورباغه | [quːrbɒɣe] | 'frog' | See Persian phonology |
| Quechua[6] | qallu | [qaʎu] | 'tongue' | ||
| Sahaptin | qu | [qu] | 'heavy' | ||
| Seediq | Seediq | [ˈsəːdʑɪq] | 'Seediq' | ||
| Serbo-Croatian | Cres Chakavian | Hrvatska | [χřʋaːtsqa:] | 'Croatia' | Allophone of /k/ if not before e or i |
| Seereer-Siin[7] | — | — | |||
| Somali | qaab | [qaːb] | 'shape' | See Somali phonology | |
| St’át’imcets | teq | [təq] | 'to touch' | ||
| Tajik | қошуқ | [qoʃuq] | 'spoon' | ||
| Tlingit | ghagw | [qɐ́kʷ] | 'tree spine' | Tlingit contrasts six different uvular stops | |
| Tsimshian | gwildmḵa̱p'a | [ɡʷildmqɑpʼa] | 'tobacco' | ||
| Ubykh | qe | [qʰɜ] | 'grave' | One of ten distinct uvular stop phonemes. See Ubykh phonology | |
| Upper Saxon | Chemnitz dialect[8] | Rock | [qɔkʰ] | 'skirt' | In free variation with [ʁ̞], [ʁ], [χ] and [ʀ̥].[8] Doesn't occur in the coda.[8] |
| Uyghur | ئاق aq | [ɑq] | 'white' | ||
| Uzbek | quloq | [qulɒq] | 'ear' | ||
| Yukaghir | Northern | маарх | [maːrq] | 'one' | |
| Southern | атахл | [ataql] | 'two' | ||
| !Xóõ | !qhàà | [ǃ͡qʰɑ̀ː] | 'water' | ||
See also
References
- ↑ Ladefoged (2005), p. 165.
- ↑ Watson (2002), p. 13.
- ↑ Torgersen, Kerswill & Fox (2007).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "John Wells's phonetic blog: k-backing". 27 July 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Glossary". Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ Ladefoged (2005), p. 149.
- ↑ Mc Laughlin (2005), p. 203.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Khan & Weise (2013), p. 235.
Bibliography
- Khan, Sameer ud Dowla; Weise, Constanze (2013), "Upper Saxon (Chemnitz dialect)", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 43 (2): 231–241, doi:10.1017/S0025100313000145
- Ladefoged, Peter (2005), Vowels and Consonants (2nd ed.), Blackwell
- Mc Laughlin, Fiona (2005), "Voiceless implosives in Seereer-Siin", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 35 (2): 201–214, doi:10.1017/S0025100305002215
- Torgersen, Eivind; Kerswill, Paul; Fox, Susan (2007), "Phonological innovation in London teenage speech", 4th Conference on Language Variation in Europe (PDF)
- Watson, Janet (2002), The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic, New York: Oxford University Press
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