uvular in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The uvular fricative /x/ is produced with a great deal of friction and/or uvular vibration, and it contrasts strongly with the velar fricative /x/.
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Uvular fricatives however may also colour vowels, thus is also a noteworthy candidate.
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As with most trills, uvular trills are often reduced to a single contact, especially between vowels.
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Though quite variable in realization, it has an allophone when occurring after uvular and epiglottal consonants.
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The uvular fricatives and are commonly spelled and.
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However, not all of these remain a uvular trill today.
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Between instances of, or after at the end of a syllable, the velar is realized as the uvular or.
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A uvular followed by a front vowel, as in kinsman, for example, is written with the corresponding back vowel to specify the uvular value:.
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They are notable phonologically for the occurrence of voiceless sonorants and uvular consonants; otherwise their phonology is also quite typical of the region.
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Note that no modern dialect preserves a distinct series of uvular consonants.
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