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Voiceless velar plosive [k]

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The voiceless velar plosive [k] is a consonant phone.

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Features[edit | edit source]

The voiceless velar plosive has the following features:

  • Its manner of articulation is a plosive, which means that the airflow is completely obstructed before being released.
  • Its place of articulation is velar, which means that the sound is produced by the back of the tongue making contact with the soft part of the roof of the mouth, called the velum.
  • It’s a voiceless consonant, which means that the vocal cords do not vibrate during the articulation of the sound.

Classification[edit | edit source]

It’s classified as a velar plosive, and has a voiced counterpart, the voiced velar plosive [g].

Representation[edit | edit source]

In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it has the IPA symbol lowercase K, i.e. ⟨k⟩, and the IPA number 109.

English[edit | edit source]

In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the K phoneme /k/, as in words like cat and kite.

References[edit | edit source]