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Gheada is a linguistic phenomenon of Galician
Galician language

Galician is a language of the Iberian Romance languages branch, spoken in Galicia , an Autonomous communities of Spain located in northwestern Spain, as well as in small bordering zones in the neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castile and Le?n and in Northern Portugal....
 which consists of pronouncing the phoneme /g/ (voiced velar occlusive or fricative
Voiced velar fricative

The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in various Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , not to be confused with , the IPA symbol for a close-mid back unrounded vowel), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is G....
) as /h/ (voiceless pharyngeal fricative
Voiceless pharyngeal fricative

The voiceless pharyngeal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is h with stroke , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is X....
) or, more commonly, /h/ (voiceless glottal fricative
Voiceless glottal fricative

The voiceless glottal transition, commonly called a "Fricative consonant", is a type of sound used in some Speech communication languages which often behaves like a consonant, but sometimes behaves more like a vowel, or is indeterminate in its behavior....
), similar to the [h] in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 house. In certain coastal areas as well as some urban and suburban areas, it may even approach /x/ (voiceless velar fricative
Voiceless velar fricative

The voiceless velar fricative, informally known as the hard ch, is a type of consonantal sound used in some Speech communication languages....
), similar to the sound written in Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 as j.

Gheada is dominant, extending throughout the western half of the Galician-speaking region, in the Spanish provinces of Corunna, Pontevedra
Pontevedra (province)

Pontevedra is a Provinces of Spain in the southwestern part of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Galicia , Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of A Coru?a , Lugo , and Ourense , and by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean....
, the westernmost part of Lugo
Lugo (province)

Lugo is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous communities of Spain of Galicia . It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense , Pontevedra , and A Coru?a , the principality of Asturias, the State of Le?n , and in the North by the Cantabrian Sea ....
, and the western half of Ourense
Ourense (province)

Ourense is a province of northwestern Spain, in the southeastern part of the Autonomous Community of Galicia . It is bordered by the provinces of Pontevedra in the west, Lugo in the north, Leon and Zamora in the east, and by Portugal in the south....
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Gheada is a linguistic phenomenon of Galician
Galician language

Galician is a language of the Iberian Romance languages branch, spoken in Galicia , an Autonomous communities of Spain located in northwestern Spain, as well as in small bordering zones in the neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castile and Le?n and in Northern Portugal....
 which consists of pronouncing the phoneme /g/ (voiced velar occlusive or fricative
Voiced velar fricative

The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in various Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , not to be confused with , the IPA symbol for a close-mid back unrounded vowel), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is G....
) as /h/ (voiceless pharyngeal fricative
Voiceless pharyngeal fricative

The voiceless pharyngeal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is h with stroke , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is X....
) or, more commonly, /h/ (voiceless glottal fricative
Voiceless glottal fricative

The voiceless glottal transition, commonly called a "Fricative consonant", is a type of sound used in some Speech communication languages which often behaves like a consonant, but sometimes behaves more like a vowel, or is indeterminate in its behavior....
), similar to the [h] in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 house. In certain coastal areas as well as some urban and suburban areas, it may even approach /x/ (voiceless velar fricative
Voiceless velar fricative

The voiceless velar fricative, informally known as the hard ch, is a type of consonantal sound used in some Speech communication languages....
), similar to the sound written in Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 as j.

Gheada is dominant, extending throughout the western half of the Galician-speaking region, in the Spanish provinces of Corunna, Pontevedra
Pontevedra (province)

Pontevedra is a Provinces of Spain in the southwestern part of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Galicia , Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of A Coru?a , Lugo , and Ourense , and by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean....
, the westernmost part of Lugo
Lugo (province)

Lugo is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous communities of Spain of Galicia . It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense , Pontevedra , and A Coru?a , the principality of Asturias, the State of Le?n , and in the North by the Cantabrian Sea ....
, and the western half of Ourense
Ourense (province)

Ourense is a province of northwestern Spain, in the southeastern part of the Autonomous Community of Galicia . It is bordered by the provinces of Pontevedra in the west, Lugo in the north, Leon and Zamora in the east, and by Portugal in the south....
. It is becoming less used, however, possibly due to pressure from Spanish, and is diminishing in Lugo and Ourense with time.

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To indicate this pronunciation, for example in written dialogue, eye dialect
Eye dialect

In English language literature, eye dialect is the literary technique of using non-standard spelling to approximate a pronunciation that is actually no different from the standard pronunciation but has the effect of dialectal, foreign, or uneducated speech....
 is sometimes used, rendering the phoneme
Phoneme

In human language, a phoneme is the smallest posited linguistically distinctive unit of sound. Phonemes carry no semantic content themselves. In theoretical terms, phonemes are not the physical segment s themselves, but cognitive abstractions or categorizations of them....
 with the digraph
Digraph

Digraph may refer to:* Digraph , a pair of characters used to write one phoneme or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined...
 gh. For example:

  • gato (cat) --> ghato ['hato]
  • pago (payment) --> pagho ['paho]


See also


  • Seseo


External links

  • by Juan Antonio Thomas, the University at Albany