oral consonant

Standard English does not have [x], except for a few loan words such as Scottish loch /lɒx/ and Hebrew Chanukah /xanukaː/. Where it occurs, it is nearly always represented by a "ch." Many speakers, especially in the United States, do not (often cannot) make this sound, and are sometimes not even aware of its existence; these speakers replace it with See also:

Voiceless velar fricative, Voiceless velar fricative - Features, Voiceless velar fricative - Varieties of [x], Voiceless velar fricative - In English, Voiceless velar fricative - In other languages, Voiceless velar fricative - Armenian, Voiceless velar fricative - Assamese, Voiceless velar fricative - Czech, Voiceless velar fricative - Dutch, Voiceless velar fricative - Esperanto, Voiceless velar fricative - Georgian, Voiceless velar fricative - German, Voiceless velar fricative - Polish, Voiceless velar fricative - Russian, Voiceless velar fricative - Spanish, Voiceless velar fricative - Welsh

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Voiceless alveolar fricative - Features. The features of the voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative are identical to those above, except that, Its manner of articulation is simple fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence, but without the grooved tongue and directed airflow, or the high frequencie ...

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Voiceless alveolar fricative, Voiceless alveolar fricative - The voiceless alveolar sibilant, Voiceless alveolar fricative - Features, Voiceless alveolar fricative - In English, Voiceless alveolar fricative - The voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative, Voiceless alveolar fricative - Features, Voiceless alveolar fricative - Examples

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Ancient Greek had plain and aspirated [p] phonemes, written pi (π) and phi (φ) respectively. The aspirated form developed into [f] by Hellenistic times, perhaps earlier. In reading ancient Greek, both in Greece and elsewhere, φ is commonly pronounced [f]. In standard Modern Greek, there is only [p] (π); φ is pronounced [f]. ...

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Voiceless bilabial plosive, Voiceless bilabial plosive - Features, Voiceless bilabial plosive - Varieties of the voiceless bilabial plosive, Voiceless bilabial plosive - In Arabic, Voiceless bilabial plosive - In English, Voiceless bilabial plosive - In Georgian, Voiceless bilabial plosive - In German, Voiceless bilabial plosive - In Greek

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The sound is more common in French, where it is represented by the letter j. The French consonant is labialized, [ʒʷ], as in English. It also occurs in Russian and Bulgarian as a realization of /ʐ/, represented by the letter Ж (zhe). It also occurs in Croatian, where it is represented by the letter ž. It also occurs in Esperanto, represented by the letter � ...

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Voiced postalveolar fricative, Voiced postalveolar fricative - Features, Voiced postalveolar fricative - In English, Voiced postalveolar fricative - In other languages

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There are few words in English that universally contain a glottal stop. The best known example is the interjection "uh-oh". However, in many dialects of English, glottal stop is an allophone of /t/ in final position, such as the "t" in habit or pat. In some dialects (for example Cockney, Estuary English and many other non-standard varieties) the glottal stop is also an allophone of /t/ in medial position, such as in the word bottle or fatter. In many dialects, even those where a medial /t/ is not in gene ...

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Glottal stop, Glottal stop - Features, Glottal stop - In English, Glottal stop - In other languages, Glottal stop - Arabic, Glottal stop - Dutch, Glottal stop - Finnish, Glottal stop - German, Glottal stop - Guaraní, Glottal stop - Hawaiian, Glottal stop - Hebrew, Glottal stop - Maltese, Glottal stop - Norwegian, Glottal stop - Võro, Glottal stop - Other

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The voiced dental fricative occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the 'th' digraph in this and the. It is different from the sound represented by 'th' in thing and bath, which is the voiceless dental fricative. In Old English, the letters þ and ð were used interchangeably for this sound and the voiceless dental fricative, but they have been dropped from modern usage in favour of the 'th' digraph. Although the same digraph is used for the voiced and voiceless forms, these sounds are not interchangeable in spoken ...

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Voiced dental fricative, Voiced dental fricative - Features, Voiced dental fricative - In English, Voiced dental fricative - Other languages, Voiced dental fricative - Icelandic, Voiced dental fricative - Welsh, Voiced dental fricative - Albanian, Voiced dental fricative - Arabic, Voiced dental fricative - Northern Sami, Voiced dental fricative - Hebrew, Voiced dental fricative - Finnish, Voiced dental fricative - Greek

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