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Voiced velar approximant

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɰ⟩ in IPA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 25, 2026
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A voiced velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɰ⟩. If it is necessary to avoid the implication that the approximant is spread as its vocalic equivalent is, it may instead be transcribed ⟨ɣ̞⟩ or ⟨ɣ᫛⟩. This is the symbol of the voiced velar fricative ⟨ɣ⟩ with a lowering diacritic.

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This entry incorporates text from “Voiced velar approximant” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.