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Voiced pharyngeal fricative
Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ʕ⟩ in IPA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The voiced pharyngeal approximant or fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʕ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ?\
. Epiglottals and epiglotto-pharyngeals are often mistakenly taken to be pharyngeal.
Voiced pharyngeal fricative | |||
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ʕ | |||
IPA Number | 145 | ||
Audio sample | |||
Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ʕ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0295 | ||
X-SAMPA | ?\ | ||
Braille | ![]() ![]() | ||
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Although traditionally placed in the fricative row of the IPA chart, [ʕ] is usually an approximant. The IPA symbol itself is ambiguous, but no language is known to make a phonemic distinction between fricatives and approximants at this place of articulation.
The IPA letter ⟨ʕ⟩ is caseless. Capital ⟨⟩ and lower-case ⟨⟩ are pending at Unicode U+A7CE and U+A7CF.