Voiceless velar fricative
x
The voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. Its manner of articulation is a glottalic fricative. Its place of articulation is velar. The symbol used by the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent this symbol is [x]. The [x] sound does not occur in most varieties of English, but it is the sound at the end of the Scottish word "loch" or the German name "Bach".
The [x] sound is a somewhat common sound cross-linguistically.
| IPA | Description |
|---|---|
| x | plain x |
| x̬ | voiced x |
| xʰ | aspirated x |
| xʷ | labialized x |
| xʲ | palatal x |