Not to be confused with the Cyrillic letter Koppa.
Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ʕ⟩ in IPA
For consonants followed by superscript ˤ, see Pharyngealization.
Voiced pharyngeal fricative
ʕ
IPA Number
145
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Encoding
Entity (decimal)
ʕ
Unicode (hex)
U+0295
X-SAMPA
?\
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Voiced pharyngeal approximant
ʕ̞
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The voiced pharyngeal approximant or fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʕ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ?\. Epiglottals and epiglotto-pharyngeals are often mistakenly taken to be pharyngeal.
Although traditionally placed in the fricative row of the IPA chart, [ʕ] is usually an approximant. The IPA symbol itself is ambiguous, but no language is known to make a phonemic distinction between fricatives and approximants at this place of articulation.
The IPA letter ⟨ʕ⟩ is caseless. Capital ⟨⟩ and lower-case ⟨⟩ are pending at Unicode U+A7CE and U+A7CF.
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