A velar ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
Features
Features of a velar ejective:
Occurrence
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=2 | Language !! Word !! IPA!! Meaning !! Notes
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| colspan=2 | Abkhaz || / |||| 'one' ||
|-
| rowspan="2" |Adyghe || Temirgoy || // || || 'calf' ||
|-
| Shapsug || / / || || 'tail' || Palatalized. Corresponds to in other dialects.
|-
| colspan=2 | Amharic || /ḳän |||| 'day' ||
|-
| colspan=2 | Archi|| / |||| 'bottom' ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | Armenian || Yerevan dialect|| / || || 'false'|| Some speakers. Corresponds to tenuis in most speakers and other Eastern dialects.
|-
|Tbilisi dialect
|/
|[kʼɑɹmiɹ]
|'red'
|
|-
| colspan=2 | Avar || / / |||| 'key' ||
|-
|colspan=2 | Chechen || // || || 'boy'||
|-
|colspan=2 | Damin || k'uu || || 'eye'||
|-
| rowspan="4" | English || Non-local Dublin || rowspan="4" | back || rowspan="4" | || rowspan="4" | 'back' || Allophone of for some speakers. || rowspan="2" | Pre-pausal allophone of for some speakers; || Occasional word-final allophone of .||
|-
| colspan=2 | Lezgian || / || || 'fang' ||
|-
| colspan="2" | Mpade || || || 'to vomit' ||
|-
| colspan="2" |Navajo
|
|
|'cloud'
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |Ossetian
|Iron
|/
|
|'hearth'
|
|-
|Digoron
|/
|
|'bag'
|
|-
| colspan=2 | Quechua || || || 'stick' ||
|-
| colspan=2 | Saanich
|
|
| 'salmon knife'
| Labialized
|-
| colspan=2 | Sotho
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|}
See also
- List of phonetics topics