Voiceless uvular fricative

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A voiceless uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is either a Latin or Greek-style chi, ⟨χ⟩. This sound was historically represented in the IPA with ⟨ᴚ⟩, a turned small capital R, until 1928, when it was officially changed to ⟨χ⟩. In Americanist phonetic notation the sound is represented by ⟨x̣⟩ (ex with underdot), or sometimes by ⟨x̌⟩ (ex with caron). In broad transcription it may be transcribed ⟨x⟩, or ⟨r⟩ if rhotic. Many languages claimed to have a voiceless uvular fricative may actually have a voiceless uvular fricative trill.

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