| Ipa Symbol: | qχ |
| X-Sampa: | q_X |
The voiceless uvular affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are (IPA|q͡χ) and (IPA|q͜χ), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is q_X. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding (IPA|qχ) in the IPA and qX in X-SAMPA.
There is also the voiceless pre-uvular affricate[1] in some languages, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical voiceless uvular affricate, though not as front as the prototypical voiceless velar affricate. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for that sound, though it can be transcribed as (IPA|q̟͡χ̟) or (IPA|q͡χ˖) (both symbols denote an advanced (IPA|q͡χ)) or (IPA|k̠͡x̠) (retracted (IPA|k͡x)). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are q_+_X_+ and k_-_x_-, respectively.
Features of the voiceless uvular affricate:
| Language | Word | Meaning | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most High and Highest Alemannic dialects | Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian: [[Latin alphabet|Gschän'''k''']] | pronounced as /[ˈkʃæɴq͡χ]/ | 'present' | Velar pronounced as /link/ in other dialects. | ||
| Adyghe; Adygei: [[Cyrillic script|'''кхъ'''э]] | 'grave' | Dialectal. Corresponds to pronounced as /[qʰ]/ in other dialects. | ||||
| Avar | Avaric: [[Cyrillic script|'''хъ'''ара'''хъ''']]/'''څ'''ارا'''څ''' | 'bush' | Contrasts with the ejective pronounced as /[q͡χʼː]/. | |||
| clock | pronounced as /[kl̥ɒq͡χ]/ | 'clock' | Possible word-final realization of pronounced as //k//. | |||
| Kabardian | Kabardian: [[Cyrillic script|'''кхъ'''э]]/'''ٯّ'''ە | 'grave' | ||||
| Klingon | pronounced as /[tʰɪq͡χ]/ | 'ancient' | Constructed language. | |||
| Some dialects | Persian: [[Persian orthography|'''ﻗ'''ﻔل]]|rtl=yes | pronounced as /[q͡χofl]/ | 'lock' | Fortition of word-initial pronounced as //q//. | ||
pronounced as /navigation/