Historically, this occurred so often with the voiced uvular fricative that it disappeared entirely from the language.
Though quite variable in realization, it has an allophone when occurring after uvular and epiglottal consonants.
This fricative or affricate is more often pronounced further back, in the uvular place of articulation (although it is represented in this article as).
A uvular followed by a front vowel, as in kinsman, for example, is written with the corresponding back vowel to specify the uvular value:.
As with most trills, uvular trills are often reduced to a single contact, especially between vowels.
Emphasis spread from the uvular stop /q/ targets only the adjacent vowel.
The properties of the velar or uvular efflux are shared with the context.
Uvulars involve backing of the rear tongue dorsum into the uvular region, just at the top of the pharynx.
