Voiceless velar fricative - Dutch

The voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is x, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is x. The [x] sound is rare in, but not completely absent from, English. To give English speakers an example of the sound with which they might be familiar, consider the sound represented by "ch" in Scottish loc ...

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• 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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The [x] sound is a somewhat common sound cross-linguistically. Voiceless velar fricative - Armenian. In Armenian, [x] is spelled Խ. Voiceless velar fricative - Assamese. In Assamese, [x] is spelled খ. ...

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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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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:

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