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Labial-velar approximant

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w
Pulmonic Consonant
IPA: w
X-SAMPA: w
Kirshenbaum: w
Place of Articulation: Labial-velar
Manner of Articulation: Approximant

The velar nasal is a very common sound cross-linguistically. It is a semi-vowel, and can be considered a consonantal version of the vowel u.

Velar nasals in natlangs

English

Voiced w win /wɪn/
Unvoiced (p,t,k)w; (q)u twin /twɪn/ [tw̥ɪn]

Latin

Voiced v vīdī /wiːdiː/

See Also

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