Voiced velar approximant | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/12/2018

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Voiced velar approximant


00:00:59 1 Features
00:02:19 2 Occurrence
00:02:42 3 Relation with span[ɡ]
00:05:18 4 See also



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The voiced velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɰ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is M\.
The consonant is not present in English, but approximates to the sound of a 'g' with the throat kept open. The voiced velar approximant can in many cases be considered the semivocalic counterpart of the close back unrounded vowel [ɯ]. The two are almost identical featurally. ⟨ɰ⟩ and ⟨ɯ̯⟩ with the non-syllabic diacritic are used in different transcription systems to represent the same sound. 
In some languages, such as Spanish, the voiced velar approximant appears as an allophone of /ɡ/ – see below.
Some languages have the voiced pre-velar approximant, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical voiced velar approximant, though not as front as the prototypical palatal approximant - see that article for more information.