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χ

voiceless uvular fricative — Georgian ხ — further back than German ach.

fricativeuvularvoiceless

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Synthesised in your browser from this sound's own recipe — formants for vowels, filtered noise for fricatives, a burst for plosives. A robot mouth, not a recording: what you hear is the physics the symbol describes.

In combination

Sounds change colour depending on their neighbours — coarticulation is why isolated drilling only gets you so far.

χa
χi
χu
aχ
aχa
iχi

Build longer chains in the combination lab.

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