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Voiceless uvular nasal | |
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ɴ̥ | |
IPA Number | 120+402A |
Audio sample | |
Encoding | |
X-SAMPA | N\_0 |
The voiceless uvular nasal is an extremely rare type of
consonantal sound, used in very few
spoken
languages. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɴ̥⟩, a combination of the letter for the
voiced uvular nasal and a
diacritic indicating
voicelessness. The equivalent
X-SAMPA symbol is N\_0
.
There is also the pre-uvular voiceless nasal [1] in the Mishongnovi dialect of the Hopi language, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical voiceless uvular nasal, though not as front as the prototypical voiceless velar nasal. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for that sound, though it can be transcribed as ⟨ɴ̟̊⟩ (advanced ⟨ɴ̥⟩), ⟨ŋ̠̊⟩ or ⟨ŋ̊˗⟩ (both symbols denote a retracted ⟨ŋ̊⟩).
Features of the voiceless uvular nasal:
Language | Dialect | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
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Lamo [2] | Kyilwa | [ example needed] | |||
Larong [2] | Tangre Chaya | [ example needed] | |||
Drag-yab [2] | Razi | [ example needed] |
Language | Dialect | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
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Hopi | Mishongnovi | [ example needed] |