Back Stimmhafter pharyngaler Frikativ ALS حلقي احتكاكي مجهور Arabic Звучна глътъчна проходна съгласна Bulgarian Ruzenn c'hargadenn mouezhiet Breton Fricativa faríngia sonora Catalan Znělá faryngální frikativa Czech Stemt faryngal frikativ Danish Stimmhafter pharyngaler Frikativ German Fricativa faríngea sonora Spanish سایشی حلقی واکدار Persian
| Voiced pharyngeal fricative | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ʕ | |||
| IPA Number | 145 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ʕ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0295 | ||
| X-SAMPA | ?\ | ||
| Braille |   | ||
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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.