Uvular ejective

Features

Occurrence

• Itelmen, where it is written ӄ': ӄ'ил'хч to depart.
• Georgian, where it is written ყ: ტყავი skin, pelt. Unlike its velar counterpart, it does not contrast with voiced or voiceless uvular stops; the voiceless uvular stop of Old Georgian has merged with the voiceless velar fricative in modern Georgian. Some scholars view this Georgian phoneme as being rather an uvular ejective fricative.
• Tahltan: door.

• Klallam: wəq̕ə́q̕ frog, sq̕ʷúŋi head.
• Lezgian, where the two are written кь and кьв: кьакьан tall, high, кьвех groin.
• North Straits Salish, where the two are written K and K̴ in the Saanich orthography: Saanich KEYOṮEN slug, snail, SK̴EḰĆES red huckleberry.

• Abkhaz contrasts plain, palatalised and labialised uvular ejectives, written ҟ ҟь ҟə: аҟаҧшь red, -ҵəҟьа really, indeed, Аҟәа Sukhum. As with Georgian, Abkhaz has no non-ejective uvular stops; the historically present uvular aspirates have merged with their corresponding fricatives, although the aspirates are preserved in Abaza.

• The plain uvular ejective is one of the most common consonants in Ubykh, due to its presence in the past tense suffix. But in addition to palatalised, labialised and plain uvular ejectives, Ubykh also possesses a pharyngealised version and a concurrently labialised and pharyngealised version, making a total of five: he said it, small and round, to seize, to chew, cavern.