The deaf palatal-velar spirant or the Deaf palatal-velar fricative (in the MFA alphabet, this sound is assigned the symbol MFA [ɧ] ) is phonetically described as folded and simultaneously pronounced [ʃ] and [x] [1] .
Deaf palatal velar spirant | |
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ɧ | |
MFA number | 175 |
Unicode (hex) | U + 267 |
HTML (decimal) | & # 615; |
X-SAMPA | x \ |
Kirshenbaum | x ^ |
Braille IFA | |
Spread
The sound is present in Swedish and is indicated by the digraph играsj⟩, as well as combinations of stj⟩, ⟨skj⟩, and ⟨sk⟩ in front of front vowels .
Notes
- ↑ Peter Ladefoged, Ian Maddieson . Sounds of the world's languages. - Oxford, 1996. - p. 329-330. - ISBN 0-631-19815-6 .