χ͈ vs ʁ

Voiceless Uvular Fricative vs Voiced Uvular Fricative

How these sounds differ

χ͈

Voiceless Uvular Fricative

Voicing: voiceless
Place: uvular
Manner: fricative
Class: consonant
In languages: 1 / 500

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Voiced Uvular Fricative

Voicing: voiced
Place: uvular
Manner: fricative
Class: consonant
In languages: 27 / 500

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Cross-linguistic distribution

Languages with χ͈

Languages with both

Languages with ʁ

0 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.

Has χ͈, not ʁ (1)

Lak Nakh-Daghestanian

Has ʁ, not χ͈ (20)

RUTUL Nakh-Daghestanian Pashto Indo-European North Azerbaijani Turkic Tundra Yukaghir Yukaghir Gilyak Nivkh AHTNA Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit ARCHI Nakh-Daghestanian Avar Nakh-Daghestanian Abipon Guaicuruan Bats Nakh-Daghestanian YUPIK Eskimo-Aleut ORMURI Indo-European Kabardian Abkhaz-Adyge Aleut Eskimo-Aleut Inuit Eskimo-Aleut Moroccan Arabic Afro-Asiatic Hindi-Urdu Indo-European Portuguese (European) Indo-European Egyptian Arabic Afro-Asiatic Uyghur Turkic