The voiceless postalveolar non-sibilant fricative is a consonantal sound. Kha represents the voiceless uvular fricative in Ossetian. Swedish is also notable for the voiceless dorso-palatal velar fricative, a highly variable consonant phoneme. The voiced velar fricative has mostly been preserved. An original voiceless alveolar lateral fricative became . Its sound value is a voiceless glottal fricative (). The International Phonetic Alphabet uses to represent the voiceless labiodental fricative. It is the sibilant equivalent of the voiced palatal fricative. An aspirated affricate consists of a stop, fricative, and aspirated release. In these circumstances, is pronounced as a velar fricative. The product is a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative . The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative () or a similarly articulated consonant. The voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative (also known as a "slit" fricative) is a consonantal sound. Zain is a consonant with the sound which is a voiced alveolar fricative. The labiodental fricative is only contrastive in loanwords.