Voiceless velar fricative

The velar fricative voiceless ( unvoiced, the rear dorsum educated fricative ) has in different languages ​​following phonetic and orthographic realizations:

  • German [ x]: ch after a, o, u and au, unless the diminutive suffix - chen follows. Example: laugh [ laxən ]
  • Example: jamás [ xamas ]

The ego also called voiceless palatal fricative sound is the German one of the following realizations ( one of the following allophones ) of the phoneme, which is usually / ç / or / x / notes: [ ç ] and [ x] or [ χ ].

  • Alemannisch [ x]: ch ( in any position )
  • Russian: Х, х
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