Palato-alveolar ejective affricate

The palato-alveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet with t͡ʃʼ. In some languages it is equivalent to a palatal ejective.

Palato-alveolar ejective affricate
tʃʼ
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Features

Features of the palato-alveolar ejective affricate:

Occurrence

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Adygheкӏако[t͡ʃʼaːkʷa]'short'
Amharicረቃ[t͡ʃʼərəkʼa]'moon'
ArmenianYerevan dialect[1]ճյուղ[t͡ʃʼiʊ̯ʁ]'branch'Corresponds to tenuis [t͡ʃ⁼] in other Eastern dialects.
AvarворчӀами[wort͡ʃʼami]'hello'
Aymara ch'uspa [t͡ʃ'uspa] 'ch'uspa'
Chechenчӏара/ç̇ara[t͡ʃʼɑːrə]'fish'
Georgian[t͡ʃʼɑ]'well'Noun, not adverb
Haidajjabako[t͡ʃʼabako]'rock hyrax'
Hausatshanya[t͡ʃʼanja]'cricket'Only found in western Hausa dialects
Kabardianкӏэ[t͡ʃʼa]'tail'
Keres shchʼísạ [ʃtʃʼísḁ] 'six'
Lazრაუნირი/ç̌raç̌uniri[t͡ʃʼrat͡ʃʼuniri]'squeaky'
Lushootseedč̓[t͡ʃʼʉʔ]'one'
Mingrelianკიკიტია/čʼḳičʼḳiṭiɑ[t͡ʃʼkʼit͡ʃʼkʼitʼia]'ant'
Ossetian Kudairag Чъреба [ˈt͡ʃʼɾebä] 'Tskhinval'
Q'eqchi'ch'och'[t͡ʃʼot͡ʃʼ]'earth'
Quechuach'umpi[t͡ʃʼʊmpɪ]'brown'
Svanლენ/lenčʼqʼ[lɛnt͡ʃʼqʼ]'marsh'
Tlingitch'eed[t͡ʃʼit]'duck'

See also

Notes

References

  • Dum-Tragut, Jasmine (2009), Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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