Voiceless velar plosive

The voiceless velar stop is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨k⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by the "c" in care and the "k" in kiss.

 Feeatures 
See also: Voiced velar lateral stop

 Examples 
 LanguageWordIPAMeaning Abkhaz  /ak̇halak̇h’ 'the city'Adyghe  Shapsug  /k′ėt   'chicken'  Temirgoy  /pskėn  Ahtna  gistaann  'six' Aleut     'cranberry bush' Arabic  Modern Standard  /kutib 'he wrote' Armenian Eastern  / k'aġak'/k'aghak 'town' Assamese  /kom 'less' Assyrian ܟܬܒ̣ܐ   ] 'book'  Basque    'cat' Bengali  /kom 'less' Bulgarian  /kak 'how' Catalan      'hearts' Chinese Cantonese   /    'home'Hokkien     'song' Mandarin   /     'high' Chuvashкукка[ku'kːɑ]'mother's brother' Czech      'bone' Danish  Standard      'goose' Dutch      'king'  English  kiss    'kiss'  Esperanto     'tale' Estonian kõik    'all' Filipino      'lice'  Finnish      'cake' French      'office'  Georgian  /kva  'stone' German     'cage' Greek     'monk' Gujarati  /kaṃde  'onion' Hebrew     'money' Hiligaynon      'laugh'  Hindustani   /   'work'  Hungarian     'then' Italian     'house' Japanese   /    'handbag' Kagayanen     'spirit' Khmer   /     'Cambodia' Korean  감자 /    'potato' Lakota  kimímela   'butterfly' Luxembourgish      'goat'  Macedonian  кој   'who' Marathi   'armour' Malay      'leg' Nepali  'banana' Norwegian     'cake' Odia  /kāma 'work' Pashto  /kal 'year'Persianکارد/kārd[kɑrd]'knife' Polish     'beech tree' Portuguese     'body' Punjabi  /کر/kar 'do' RomanianDEX Online :    'when' Russian  /korotkiy  'short' Serbo-Croatian   /     'bone' Slovak     'bone' Spanish     'house' Swedish     'cow' Sylheti  /kita 'what' Tamil  கை/kai   'hand' Telugu  కాకి/kāki   'crow'  Thai/kị̀'chicken' Turkish     'ear' Ubykh  кауар/kawar 'slat' Ukrainian /koleso  'wheel' Vietnamese     'orange'Welshcalon[kalɔn]'heart' West Frisian    'calf' Yi  /    'foolish' Zapotec Tilquiapan  canza  'walking'

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Category:Consonants