X

X is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. In phonetics, is the IPA and X-SAMPA symbol for the voiceless velar fricative. The IPA is used here.

Related Topics:
Latin alphabet - Phonetics - IPA - X-SAMPA - Voiceless velar fricative

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/ks/ was in Ancient Greece written as Chi 'Χ' (Western Greek) or Xi 'Ξ' (Eastern Greek). In the end, Chi was standardized as {{IPA|/kʰ/}} (/x/ in Modern Greek) as well as Xi for /ks/. But the Etruscans took over X from older Western Greek, therefore, it stood for /ks/ in Etruscan and Latin. In some languages as a result of assorted phonetic changes and handwriting adaptations it has other pronunciations:-

Related Topics:
Ancient Greece - Chi - Xi - Modern Greek - Etruscans - Latin

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: {{ll|English}}: usually ; sometimes (e.g. "exhaust", "exam"); usually at the beginnings of words (e.g. "xylophone".

Related Topics:
Exhaust - Exam - Xylophone

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: {{ll|French}}: at the ends of words, silent (or in sandhi if the next word starts with a vowel). This usage arose as a handwriting alteration of final -us.

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: {{ll|Spanish}} and {{ll|Portuguese}}: as a spelling for , including in spelling Mexican placenames. (In Spanish the sound has since changed to and its usual spelling has changed to "j".)

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: In some recently-invented Roman-alphabet spellings of languages, "x" represents : Kurdish, Azeri, Uzbek, Tatar and Lojban.

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Kurdish - Azeri - Uzbek - Tatar - Lojban

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Some scholars claim that Latin X is not identical with Greek Χ.

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In Hanyu Pinyin, the official transcription system for Mandarin Chinese, the X denotes a /?/ sound (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative).

Related Topics:
Hanyu Pinyin - Mandarin Chinese - Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative

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It is also controversial whether Psi, Chi (Khi) and Xi are Greek inventions or whether they are ultimately of Semitic origin.

Related Topics:
Psi - Xi - Semitic

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The letter X is not used in the Italian language, except for words borrowed from other languages, or names of foreigners. No words in the Basic English vocabulary begin with X, but it occurs in words beginning with other letters.

Related Topics:
Italian language - Basic English

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The letter X is spoken as X-ray in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

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