Voiceless uvular plosive
| Voiceless uvular plosive | |||
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| q | |||
| IPA number | 111 | ||
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| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | q | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0071 | ||
| X-SAMPA | q | ||
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A voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k], except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨q⟩.