Cognates in other Germanic languages show that the ?k?was probably a voiceless velar plosive in Proto-Germanic ( compare gneiss, etc . where the initial ?g?is not silent ).
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While not as common, the letter ?g?will also become silent when placed in front of an ?n?at the beginning of a word, rather than being realized as a voiced velar plosive ( ).
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For many Common Slavic dialects including most of West Slavic, all but the northernmost portions of East Slavic, and some western parts of South Slavic * g lenited from a voiced velar plosive to a voiced velar fricative ( > ).
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One particular instance can be found at Talk : Voiced velar plosive, where it is discussed that the font " MS Reference Sans Serif " has the wrong character .-- cesarb 17 : 26, 21 June 2006 ( UTC)
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For many Common Slavic dialects including most of West Slavic, all but the northernmost portions of East Slavic, and some western parts of South Slavic * g lenited from a voiced velar plosive to a voiced velar fricative ( ?! ).
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For this proto-language of the Elves, Tolkien appears to have borrowed the five-part Greek, Sanskrit, and others; namely, one labial, one coronal, and three velar plosives ( palatal, plain, and labial ).
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The solar letters all have in common that they are palatalized voiced velar plosive in the classical language, and is thus considered a lunar letter; nevertheless, in colloquial Arabic, the " " is often spoken as if solar .)
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The language also has a typologically rare consonant : a prenasalised voiced labial-velar plosive : e . g . woman ( spelled " n-le "'q "'evn " in the local orthography ).
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In Icelandic orthography, the combinations'gj'and'kj'represent voiceless palatal plosives ( aspirated if word-initial'kj', unaspirated otherwise ); I just corrected the table in the linked article which had'g'being pronounced as a velar plosive in front of'j '.
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In Belarusian, the plosive realization of the Proto-Slavic voiced velar plosive has been preserved root-internally in the consonant clusters 9 73 :, 9 63 :, 9 473 :, and 9 463 : ( in words such as " < 073V ", " 2M4730FL " or " 4630FL " but not on a morphological boundary, as in " 73040FL ", in which / z / is a prefix ).
