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| | #REDIRECT [[Voiceless labial-velar approximant]] |
| !style="background:#CCCCFF;" colspan=2| <big>ʍ</big>
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| |colspan=2 align="center"| Pulmonic Consonant
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| | [[IPA]]: || ʍ
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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> '''[-Voice]''' <br> [+round] <br>
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| This is a devoiced bilabial velar approximate. It's voiced form is /[[w]]/.
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| =English=
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| == Old English ==
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| In Old English it was spelt '''Hw'''. An example might be the first line of Beowulf "Hwæt we Gar-Dena...."
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| Other Anglo-Saxon words had this spelling, such as Hwær (where). Hwam (whom), Hwalas (whales), Hwon (who), Hwi (why). etc.
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| == Middle English ==
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| This sound had three different spellings in Medieval English, but the most common was '''wh.''' In the earliest days, in such works as '''[[Brut]]''' we see that they prefer Anglo-Saxon spelling, so '''hw''' is most common. In works which have a heavy Old French influence it is common to see '''qu''' instead of the others, because qu /kw/ is the closes sounds French equivalent. [[Geoffry Chaucer]], being one of the most influential to standardised English, used '''wh.'''
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| ==Modern English==
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| Most people who speak English today now use /w/ instead of the /ʍ/. Some Dialects in the Northwest of the United States and quite a few Scottish accents still use it. Also many English speaks come close when they add a devoiced sound next to it, so 'twas, quest, sweet, and others have semi-devoiced /ʍ/s in them.
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| =Old Norse=
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| In Old Norse, this sound was spelt '''hv''' and was used in cases similar to the Old English words. Since Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse have some similar vocabulary, it's natural to see this connection.
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