The voiced velar affricate is a type of

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al sound, used in very few spoken

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s. The symbols in the

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that represent this sound are and , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g_G. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding in the IPA and gG in X-SAMPA. The voiced velar affricate has not been reported to occur phonemically in any language, but it is reported as an allophone of /g/ (usually realized as a

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) in some dialects of Anglo-English.

Features

Features of the voiced velar affricate:

Occurrence

Notes

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Voiced Velar Affricate Affricates Pulmonic consonants Voiced oral consonants Velar consonants Central consonants