Velar fricative

A velar fricative is a fricative consonant pronounced with the back of the tongue against the soft palate (or "velum"). It is possible to distinguish the following kinds of velar fricatives:

• Voiced velar fricative, a consonant sound written as ⟨ɣ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Voiceless velar fricative, a consonant sound written as ⟨x⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Velar ejective fricative, a consonant sound written as ⟨xʼ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet