The voiced uvular affricate is a rare type of
consonantal sound, used in some
spokenlanguages. The symbols in the
International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are ⟨ɢ͡ʁ⟩ and ⟨ɢ͜ʁ⟩. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨ɢʁ⟩.
Features
Features of the voiced uvular affricate:
Its
manner of articulation is
affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
^Nikolaev, Dmitry (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.).
Western Farsi sound inventory (EA). Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
^Stanford Phonology Archive (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.).
Western Farsi sound inventory (SPA). Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.