qʼː vs ɢ

Voiceless Uvular Stop vs Voiced Uvular Stop

How these sounds differ

qʼː

Voiceless Uvular Stop

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

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Voiced Uvular Stop

Voicing: voiced
Place: uvular
Manner: stop
Class: consonant
In languages: 14 / 500

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Cross-linguistic distribution

Languages with qʼː

Languages with both

Languages with ɢ

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 qʼː, not ɢ (1)

Tigrinya Afro-Asiatic

Has ɢ, not qʼː (14)

RUTUL Nakh-Daghestanian AHTNA Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit EYAK Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit KLAMATH Language isolate Lak Nakh-Daghestanian Burushaski Language isolate Kunimaipa Kunimaipan Kwakiutl Wakashan Awiya Afro-Asiatic Persian Indo-European Gilyak Nivkh Somali Afro-Asiatic Mongolian Mongolic-Khitan Kyrgyz Turkic