Voiceless labial-velar fricative: Difference between revisions

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+#REDIRECT [[Voiceless labial-velar approximant]]
-!style="background:#CCCCFF;" colspan=2| <big>k</big>
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-|colspan=2 align="center"| Pulmonic Consonant
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-| [[IPA]]: || ʍ
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-| [[X-SAMPA]]: || <tt>k</tt>
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-| Place of Articulation: || [[Velar]] [[bilabial]]
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-| Manner of Articulation: || [[approximate]]
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-| [[Phonological feature]]s: || [-consonantal] <br> '''[-<small>Voice</small>]''' <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;[+round] <br>
-| &nbsp;&nbsp; [-Syllabic]
-|}
-This is a devoiced bilabial velar approximate.  It's voiced form is /[[w]]/.
-=English=
-== Old English ==
-In Old English it was spelt Hw.  An example might be the first line of Beowulf "Hwæt we Gar-Dena...."
-Other Anglo-Saxon words had this spelling, such as Hwær (where). Hwam (whom), Hwalas (whales), Hwon (who), Hwi (why). etc.
-== Middle English ==
-This sound had three different spellings in Medieval English, but the most common was "wh."  In the earliest days, in such works as "Brut"