Gheada

Gheada (IPA: [ħeˈaðɐ]) is a term in Galician to describe the debuccalisation of the voiced velar stop /ɡ/ to a voiceless pharyngeal fricative [ħ].

  Gheada
  No gheada

Although it is found throughout Galicia, its use is declining in Lugo and eastern Ourense, and it is rarely encountered in education or broadcasting. However, it is neither considered incorrect nor stigmatised, and it is perfectly acceptable in speech.

Occasionally, the sound is articulated as a voiceless velar fricative [x], as in Castilian jamón.

Orthography

The pronunciation is sometimes indicated by the digraph gh:

  • gato (IPA: [ˈɡatʊ]; "cat") > ghato [ˈħatʊ]
  • pago (IPA: [ˈpaɣʊ]; "payment") > pagho [ˈpaħʊ]
gollark: "Normal" programs are basically just "glue some frontend stuff to a database and API calls and maybe add a few numbers" in the process.
gollark: (it is a unit-capable calculator program)
gollark: The best language is `units`.
gollark: However, my perfect and without flaw programs are ungarbage.
gollark: But Palaiologos said that all Python programs were garbage.

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