uvular

Speech parts

1. uvular - Noun

2. uvular - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a uvula.

Examples

the uvular r Source: Internet

Challenges A simple example of difficulties in transliteration is the voiceless uvular plosive used in Arabic and other languages. Source: Internet

History The Semitic sound value of Qôp (perhaps originally qaw, "cord of wool", and possibly based on an Egyptian hieroglyph ) was /q/ ( voiceless uvular stop ), a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones. Source: Internet

For example, Chilcotin has a phonological process known as vowel flattening (i.e. post-velar harmony) where vowels must harmonize with uvular and pharyngealized consonants. Source: Internet

Henry R. T. Muzale, Josephat M. Rugemalira, Researching and Documenting the Languages of Tanzania (2008): "Iraqw orthography includes two letters not used in writing Kiswa-hili, q for the voiceless uvular stop, and x for the voiceless velar fricative. Source: Internet

In the Hellenistic period, Akkadian /r/ was transcribed using the Greek ρ, indicating it was pronounced similarly as an alveolar trill (though Greeks may also have perceived a uvular trill as ρ). Source: Internet

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