Voiceless uvular nasal

A voiceless uvular nasal is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in few spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is, a combination of the letter for the voiced uvular nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness.

Features

Features of a voiceless uvular nasal:

Voiceless pre-uvular nasal

There is also a voiceless post-velar or pre-uvular nasal in the Mishongnovi dialect of the Hopi language, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical voiceless uvular nasal, though not as front as the prototypical voiceless velar nasal. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for that sound, though it can be transcribed as, or .