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| | Uvular consonant - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | They may be stops, fricatives, nasals, trills, or approximants, though the IPA does not provide a separate symbol for the approximant, and the symbol for the voiced fricative is used instead. |
 | | The voiceless uvular plosive is expressed as [q] in most transliteration schemes, including the IPA and SAMPA, and is pronounced similarly to the voiceless velar plosive [k], but with the middle of one's tongue against the soft uvula rather than the velum. |
 | | It sounds similar to the voiceless velar fricative [x] (spelled in Peninsular Spanish, in German, Dutch or Scots, <х> in Russian, and <χ> in Greek), except that it is articulated on the uvula. |
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