The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, is used to represent the voiceless bilabial plosive. The International Phonetic Alphabet uses for the voiceless velar plosive. In Ancient Greek, beta represented the voiced bilabial plosive . Before plosive or affricate consonants this nasality becomes homorganic nasal of the following consonant. The velar fricative was also transformed into the corresponding plosive . In classical times, Greeks pronounced this as an aspirated voiceless velar plosive . The unattested parent language, Proto-Chin, featured a voiced velar plosive . Only certain loanwords, not native words, have the voiced velar plosive. In Italian and Romanian, represents (the voiced velar plosive) before and . It commonly represents the voiced velar plosive , like in "gift". Often, before a velar plosive (as in "ink" or "jungle"), alone represents a velar nasal. Thorn clusters are sequences of a dental (') plus a velar plosive (' etc.). It represents a voiced palatal plosive in Konkani, Yoruba, and Swahili. In Kiowa, stands for a voiceless alveolar plosive, .