 the voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. it was part of the consonant inventory of old english and can still be found in some dialects of english, most notably in scottish english loch. the symbol in the international phonetic alphabet that represents this sound is . ==features== features of the voiceless velar fricative:       ==varieties of == {| class=wikitable ! ipa !! description |- | style="font-size:24px" | || plain velar fricative |- | style="font-size:24px" | || labialised |- | style="font-size:24px" | || ejective |- | style="font-size:24px" | || ejective labialised |- | style="font-size:24px" | || semi-labialised |- | style="font-size:24px" | || strongly labialised |- | style="font-size:24px" | || palatalised |- | style="font-size:24px" | || ejective palatalised |} == occurrence == the voiceless velar fricative and its labialized variety are traditionally postulated to have occurred in proto-germanic, the ancestor of the germanic languages, as the reflex of the proto-indo-european voiceless palatal and velar stops and the labialized voiceless velar stop. thus proto-indo-european *á¸±rÌ¥nom "horn" and *kÊ·Ã³d "what" became proto-germanic *hurnan and *hwat, where *h and *hw were likely to be  and . this sound change is part of grimm's law. in modern greek, the voiceless velar fricative (with its allophone the voiceless palatal fricative , occurring before front vowels) originated from the ancient greek voiceless aspirated stop  in a sound change that turned greek aspirated stops into fricatives. {| class="wikitable" !colspan=2| language !! word !! ipa !! meaning !! notes |- |colspan=2| abaza ||  ||  || 'name' || |- |colspan=2| adyghe ||  ||  || 'six' ||colspan=2| |- |colspan=2| afrikaans ||  ||  || 'well' || |- | aleut || atkan dialect ||  ||  || 'two' || |- | arabic || mo
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