Voiceless uvular nasal
The voiceless uvular nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨ɴ̥⟩. It is not in English.
| ɴ̥ | |
|---|---|
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | N\_0 |
Features
- The airstream mechanism is pulmonic. It means that we produce this sound by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
- Its phonation is voiceless. It means that we produce this sound without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
- We produce it at uvular. It means that we produce this sound with the back of the tongue (the dorsum) at the uvula.
- It is a nasal consonant. It means that air is allowed to escape through the nose, either exclusively (nasal stops) or in addition to through the mouth.
Occurrence
| Language | Dialect | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamo[1] | Kyilwa | [example needed] | |||
| Larong[1] | Tangre Chaya | [example needed] | |||
| Drag-yab[1] | Razi | [example needed] | |||
Voiceless Uvular Nasal Media
Sagittal section of a voiceless uvular nasal
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Suzuki, Hiroyuki and Tashi Nyima. 2018. Historical relationship among three non-Tibetic languages in Chamdo, TAR. Proceedings of the 51st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (2018). Kyoto: Kyoto University.