Voiceless velar stop

k
Pulmonic Consonant
IPA:	k
X-SAMPA:	k
Place of Articulation:	Velar
Manner of Articulation:	Stop
Phonological features:	[+consonantal] [+DORSAL]   [+high]

The voiceless velar stop is a common sound. Its voiced equivalent is g.

Velar stops often palatalize before front vowels; this effect may be seen in many languages' traditional pronunciations of Latin "c", originally /k/.

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