Labiodental ejective affricate

The labiodental ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨p̪fʼ⟩.

Labiodental ejective affricate
p̪fʼ

Features

Features of the labiodental ejective affricate:

  • Its manner of articulation is affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
  • Its place of articulation is labiodental, which means it is articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
  • Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
  • It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
  • It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
  • The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.

Occurrence
LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Afade[1][2]
Tsetsaut[3][4] apfʼo [ap̪͡fʼo] "boil"
Venda[5]

See also

References
  1. "PHOIBLE 2.0 -". phoible.org.
  2. "UPSID KOTOKO". web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de.
  3. Boas, Franz, and Pliny Earle Goddard (1924) "Ts'ets'aut, an Athapascan Language from Portland Canal, British Columbia." International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1–35.
  4. Tharp, George W. (1972). "The Position of the Tsetsaut among Northern Athapaskans". International Journal of American Linguistics. 38 (1): 14–25. doi:10.1086/465179. JSTOR 1264498. S2CID 145318136 – via JSTOR.
  5. "A Linguistic Analysis of Venda". Google Books.
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