How these sounds differ
ɡ̟
Voiced Palatal Stop
- Voicing
- voiced
- Place
- palatal
- Manner
- stop
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 1 / 500
k̟
Voiceless Palatal Stop
- Voicing
- voiceless
- Place
- palatal
- Manner
- stop
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 2 / 500
Cross-linguistic distribution
1
Languages with ɡ̟
1
Languages with both
2
Languages with k̟
1 languages in our database contrast both sounds as distinct phonemes. Languages that have one but not the other tend to merge them into a single phoneme — meaning speakers of those languages often struggle to hear the distinction when learning a language that contrasts them.