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Voiced uvular plosive
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:41 am
by Arzemju
Is it just for me that pronouncing the voiced uvular plosive /ɢ/ makes me want to vomit? I can say the /q/, even the /ɴ/ but the /ɢ/ is just a pain.
Am I the only one having problems pronouncing this sound? Also, what languages (non constructed ones) uses this sound?
Re: Voiced uvular plosive
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:56 am
by Nortaneous
Arzemju wrote:Am I the only one having problems pronouncing this sound? Also, what languages (non constructed ones) uses this sound?
a very incomplete list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_uvu ... Occurrence
another very incomplete list:
The 'voiced uvular plosive' sounds occur in these languages:
Language (sounds) Sound % of sounds in language
AHTNA (35) G 2.86%
AWIYA (35) G, GW 5.71%
EYAK (45) G 2.22%
FARSI (30) G 3.33%
KIRGHIZ (30) G 3.33%
KLAMATH (37) G 2.70%
KUNIMAIPA (20) G 5.00%
KWAKW'ALA (48) G, GW 4.17%
LAK (69) G, GW 2.90%
MONGUOR (28) G 3.57%
RUTUL (64) G, G9, GW, GW9 6.25%
SOMALI (32) G 3.12%
TLINGIT (48) G, GW 4.17%
TSIMSHIAN (41) G 2.44%
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:46 am
by Davoush
Arabic /q/ is often [ɢ] in some Gulf dialects.
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:18 pm
by Silk
The Kazakh letter
ғ is /R/, but after
ң /N/, it may be realized as [G\].
According to
Wikipedia, this sound can occur in Persian as a realization of the
qaaf or
ghayn.
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:53 pm
by Soap
Mongolian has /G\/ without even having /q/. One of the weirdest phonologies in the world, for sure.
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:05 am
by caedes
My German dialect seems to have [ɢ], [ɢ̥] as allophones of /g/ (including standard /k/ ) after /ʀ/ [ɑ̠ˤ]:
[ˈmɛɑ̠̯ˤɢɜ] to notice cf. standard <merken> [ˈmɛa̯kʰən]
[(ʔ)ɑ̠ˤːɢ̥] very
The same might count for adjacent Low Swabian dialects, too.