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Main sound category: Plosives
Sound category: voiceless velar plosive
IPA symbol: k
IPA description: voiceless velar plosive
UPSID symbol: k
UPSID description: voiceless velar plosive
Occurs in 428 languages
That is in 86.99% of all languages
Occurs in: !Xu A-Pucikwar Aari Abar Abau Abidji Abipon Abishira Ache Achumawi Aghem Ainu Aizi Akawaio Alabama Alawa Albanian Aleut Alladian Amahuaca Amele Amharic Amo Amuesha Amuzgo Andamanese Andoke Angaatiha Angas Ao Apinaye Arabela Arabic Arabic_Modern Standard Arabic Armenian Arrernte Asmat Atayal Auca Awiya Axluxlay Azande Azerbaijani Bai Baining Bakairi Bambara Barasano Bardi Bariba Bashkir Basque Batak Beja Bengali_Bangladesh Bengali_Calcutta Bete Birom Bisa Bodo Bororo Brahui Brao Breton Bribri Bruu Bulgarian Burarra Burmese Burushaski Cacua Caddo Campa Camsa Cantonese Carib Catalan (Central) Cayapa Cayuvava Cham Chamorro Changzhou Chatino Chipewyan Chuave Chukchi Chuvash Cofan Cubeo Cuna Dadibi Dafla Dagbani Dagur Dahalo Daju Dakota Dan Dangaleat Dani Dari Dera Diegueno Dinka Diola Diyari Dizi Doayo Dogon Dutch Efik Ejagham Ekari Epena pedee Even Ewondo Fasu Fe?fe? Fijian Finnish French Fur Fuzhou Gadsup Garawa Gbeya Gelao Georgian Greek Guahibo Guajiro Guambiano Guarani Gugu-yalanji Gwari Hadza Haida Hakka Hamer Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Highland chinantec Hindi-urdu Hixkaryana Hmong Hopi Huari Huasteco Huave Hungarian Iai Iate Iban Igbo Ik Indonesian Inuit Iranxe Iraqw Irarutu Island carib Isoko Italian Italian_UPSID Itelmen Itonama Ivatan Iwam Japanese Japreria Jaqaru Javanese Jebero Jingpho Jivaro K'ekchi Kadugli Kaingang Kala lagaw ya Kaliai Kalkatungu Kam Kanakuru Kanuri Karen Karok Kashmiri Kawaiisu Kefa Kera Ket Khanty Kharia Khasi Khmer Khmu? Kiowa Kirghiz Koiari Kolokuma ijo Koma Komi Konkani Konyagi Korean Koryak Kotoko Koya Kpan Kpelle Kullo Kunama Kunimaipa Kurdish Kurukh Kven Kwoma Lahu Lai Lakkia Lame Lelemi Lenakel Lithuanian Lua Lue Lugbara Luiseno Lungchow Luo Lushootseed Maasai Maba Malagasy Malakmalak Mambila Manchu Mandarin Mapudungu Maranao Margi Mari Maung Maxakali Mazahua Mazatec Mba-ne Mbum Mien Mixe Mixtec Moghol Monguor Mor Moro Movima Moxo Muinane Mumuye Mundari Murinhpatha Mursi Nahuatl Nama Nambakaengo Nanai Nasioi Navajo Naxi Ndut Nenets Neo-aramaic Nepali NepaliOH Nera Newari Nez perce Nganasan Ngarinjin Ngiyambaa Ngizim Nicobarese Nimboran Nivkh Noni Nubian Nunggubuyu Nyah kur Nyangi Nyimang Ocaina Ogbia Ojibwa Ormuri Pacoh Paez Paiwan Panare Papago Parauk Pashto Paya Phlong Picuris Piraha Po-ai Pohnpeian Polish Pomo Portuguese (Brasilian) Qawasqar Quechua Quileute Resigaro Romanian Roro Rotokas Rukai Russian Sa'ban Saami Saliba Sama Sandawe Sango Savosavo Sebei Sedang Selkup Senadi Seneca Sentani Serbian Shasta Shilha Shiriana Shuswap Sierra miwok Sinhalese Siona Siriono Socotri Songhai Southern kiwai Southern nambiquara Spanish (Castilian) Sre Suena Sui Swahili Tabi Tacana Tagalog Taishan Tama Tamang Tamasheq Tamil Tampulma Taoripi Tarascan Tarok Tehuelche Teke Telugu Temein Temne Tera Tetun Thai Ticuna Tiddim chin Tigak Tigre Tigrinya Tiruray Tiwi Tlapanec Tlingit Tol Tonkawa Totonac Trumai Tseshaht Tsimshian Tsou Tulu Turkish Tuva Ukrainian Upper chehalis Urdu_Pakistan Uzbek Vietnamese Wahgi Wantoat Wappo Warao Waray Waris West makian Western desert Wichita Wik-munkan Wintu Wiyot Woisika Wolof Xiamen Yagaria Yagua Yakut Yanyuwa Yaqui Yareba Yawa Yay Yolngu Yoruba Yucatec Yuchi Yucuna Yukaghir Yulu Yupik Zoque Zulu