| Voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ts | |||
| ʦ | |||
| IPA number | 103 132 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity(decimal) | ʦ | ||
| Unicode(hex) | U+02A6 | ||
| X-SAMPA | ts | ||
| |||
Avoiceless alveolar affricate is a type ofaffricate consonant pronounced with thetip orblade of the tongue against thealveolar ridge (gum line) just behind the teeth. There are several types ofmedian affricates with significant perceptual differences:
This article discusses the first two.
Avoiceless alveolar sibilant affricate is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in somespokenlanguages. The sound is transcribed in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨t͡s⟩ or ⟨t͜s⟩. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨ts⟩. There is also a ligature ⟨ʦ⟩, which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. A voiceless alveolar affricate occurs in manyIndo-European languages, such asGerman (which was also part of theHigh German consonant shift),Kashmiri,Marathi,Pashto,Russian and most otherSlavic languages such asPolish andSerbo-Croatian; also, among many others, inGeorgian, in Mongolia, and Tibetan Sanskrit, inJapanese, inMandarin Chinese, and inCantonese. Someinternational auxiliary languages, such asEsperanto,Ido andInterlingua also include this sound.
Features of a voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate:
The following sections are named after the fricative component.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armenian | Eastern[2] | ցանց/canc | [t̻͡s̪ʰan̪t̻͡s̪ʰ]ⓘ | 'net' | Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms |
| Basque[3] | hotz | [o̞t̻͡s̪] | 'cold' | Contrasts with a sibilant affricate with an apical fricative component.[3] | |
| Belarusian[4] | цётка/ciotka | [ˈt̻͡s̪ʲɵtka] | 'aunt' | Contrastingpalatalization. SeeBelarusian phonology | |
| Bulgarian[5] | цар/car | [t̻͡s̪är] | 'Tsar' | SeeBulgarian phonology | |
| Chinese | Mandarin[6][7] | 早餐 / zǎo cān | [t̻͡s̪ɑʊ˨˩t̻͡s̪ʰan˥] | 'breakfast' | Contrasts withaspirated form. SeeStandard Chinese phonology |
| Cantonese | 早餐 / zou2 caan1 | /t͡sou˧˥t͡sʰaːn˥/ | 'breakfast' | SeeCantonese phonology | |
| Czech[8] | co | [t̻͡s̪o̝] | 'what' | SeeCzech phonology | |
| Hungarian[9] | cica | [ˈt̻͡s̪it̻͡s̪ɒ] | 'kitten' | SeeHungarian phonology | |
| Japanese | 津波 / tsunami | [t̻͡s̪ɯ̟ᵝnämʲi] | 'Tsunami' | Allophone of/t/ before/u/. SeeJapanese phonology | |
| モッツァレラ/mottsarera | [mo̞t̻t̻͡s̪äɾe̞ɾä] | 'mozzarella' | May appear before other vowels inloanwords. SeeJapanese phonology | ||
| Kashmiri | ژاس/cás | [t͡saːs] | 'cough' | ||
| Kashubian[10] | [example needed] | ||||
| Kazakh[11] | инвестиция/investitsiya | [investit̻͡s̪əja] | 'price' | Only in loanwords from Russian[11][12] SeeKazakh phonology andKyrgyz phonology | |
| Kyrgyz[12] | |||||
| Latvian[13] | cena | [ˈt̻͡s̪en̪ä] | 'price' | SeeLatvian phonology | |
| Macedonian[14] | цвет/cvet | [t̻͡s̪ve̞t̪] | 'flower' | SeeMacedonian phonology | |
| Pashto | څلور/śalor | [t͡saˈlor] | 'four' | SeePashto phonology | |
| Polish[15] | co | [t̻͡s̪ɔ]ⓘ | 'what' | SeePolish phonology | |
| Romanian[16] | preț | [pre̞t̻͡s̪] | 'price' | SeeRomanian phonology | |
| Russian[5] | царь/caŕ | [t̻͡s̪ärʲ] | 'Tsar' | SeeRussian phonology | |
| Serbo-Croatian[17][18] | циљ /cilj /ڄیڵ | [t̻͡s̪îːʎ] | 'target' | SeeSerbo-Croatian phonology | |
| Slovak | cisár | [t̻͡s̪isaːr] | 'emperor' | SeeSlovak phonology | |
| Slovene[19] | cvet | [t̻͡s̪ʋêːt̪] | 'bloom' | SeeSlovene phonology | |
| Spanish | Andalusian[20] | resto | [ˈre̞t̻͡s̪o̞] | 'rest' | SeeAndalusian Spanish |
| Tyap | tsa | [t͡sa] | 'to begin' | ||
| Ukrainian[21] | цей/cej | [t̻͡s̪ɛj] | 'this one' | Contrastingpalatalization. SeeUkrainian phonology | |
| Upper Sorbian[22] | cybla | [ˈt̻͡s̪ɘblä] | 'onion' | ||
| Uzbek[23] | [example needed] | ||||
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | Najdi[24] | كلب/tsalb | [t͡salb] | 'dog' | Corresponds to/k/ and/t͡ʃ/ in other dialects |
| Asturian | Some dialects[25] | otso | [ˈot͡so] | 'eight' | Corresponds to standard/t͡ʃ/ |
| Ḷḷena,Mieres, and others | ḷḷuna | [ˈt͡sunɐ] | 'moon' | Alveolar realization ofche vaqueira instead of normal retroflex[ʈ͡ʂ] | |
| Basque[3] | hots | [ot̻͡s̺] | 'sound' | The fricative component is apical. Contrasts with a laminal affricate with a dentalized fricative component.[3] | |
| Blackfoot[26] | ᖹᒧᐧᒣᑯ /Niitsítapii | [niːt͡sɪ́tʌpiː] | 'original person' or 'Blackfoot Person' | ||
| Catalan[27] | potser | [pu(t)ˈt̻͡s̺e] | 'maybe' | The fricative component is apical. Only restricted to morpheme boundaries, some linguistics do not consider it a phoneme (but a sequence of[t] +[s]). Long and short versions of intervocalic affricates are in free variation in Central Catalan[tːs] ~[ts]. SeeCatalan phonology | |
| Central Alaskan Yup'ik[28] | cetaman | [t͡səˈtaman] | 'four' | Allophone of/t͡ʃ/ beforeschwa | |
| Chamorro[29] | CHamoru | [t͡sɑˈmoːɾu] | 'Chamorro' | SpelledChamoru in the orthography used in theNorthern Mariana Islands. | |
| Chechen | цаца /caca /ر̤ار̤ا | [t͡sət͡sə] | 'sieve' | ||
| Cherokee[30] | ᏣᎳᎩtsalagi | [t͡salaɡi] | 'Cherokee' | ||
| Danish | Standard[31] | to | [ˈt̻͡s̺ʰoːˀ] | 'two' | The fricative component is apical.[31] In some accents, it is realized as[tʰ].[31] Usually transcribed/tˢ/ or/t/. Contrasts with the unaspirated stop[t], which is usually transcribed/d̥/ or/d/. SeeDanish phonology |
| Dargwa | цадеш /ꞩadeş /ڝادەش | [t͡sadeʃ] | 'unity, oneness' | ||
| Dutch | Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect[32] | mat | [ˈmät͡s] | 'market' | Optional pre-pausal allophone of/t/.[32] SeeOrsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect phonology |
| English | BroadCockney[33] | tea | [ˈt͡səˑi̯] | 'tea' | Possible word-initial, intervocalic and word-final allophone of/t/.[34][35] SeeEnglish phonology |
| Received Pronunciation[35] | [ˈt͡sɪˑi̯] | ||||
| New York[36] | Possible syllable-initial and sometimes also utterance-final allophone of/t/.[36] SeeEnglish phonology | ||||
| New Zealand[37] | Word-initial allophone of/t/.[37] SeeEnglish phonology | ||||
| North Wales[38] | [ˈt͡siː] | Word-initial and word-final allophone of/t/; in free variation with a strongly aspirated stop[tʰ].[38] SeeEnglish phonology | |||
| Port Talbot[39] | Allophone of/t/. In free variation with[tʰʰ].[39] | ||||
| Scouse[40] | Possible syllable-initial and word-final allophone of/t/.[40] SeeEnglish phonology | ||||
| GeneralSouth African[41] | wanting | [ˈwɑnt͡sɪŋ] | 'wanting' | Possible syllable-final allophone of/t/.[41] | |
| Esperanto | cico | ['t͡sit͡so] | 'nipple' | SeeEsperanto phonology | |
| Filipino | tsokolate | [t͡sokɔlate] | 'chocolate' | ||
| French | Quebec | tu | [t͡sy] | 'you' | Allophone of/t/ before/i,y/. |
| Georgian[42] | კაცი/k'atsi | [kʼɑt͡si] | 'man' | ||
| Haida | x̱ants | [ʜʌnt͡s] | 'shadow' | Allophone of/t͡ʃ/.[43] | |
| Hebrew | צל/tzel | [t͡se̞l] | 'shadow' | ||
| Korean | North Korean | 조선 /Chosŏn | [t͡sɔsɔn] | 'North Korea' | Corresponds to /t͡ɕ/ inSouth Korean. SeeKorean phonology |
| Luxembourgish[44] | Zuch | [t͡suχ] | 'train' | SeeLuxembourgish phonology | |
| Marathi | चमचा/tsamtsā | ['t͡səmt͡saː] | 'spoon' | Represented by <च>, which also represents[t͡ʃ]. It is not a marked difference. | |
| Nepali | चाप/tsāp | [t͡säp] | 'pressure' | Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated versions. The unaspirated is represented by /च/. The aspirated sound is represented by /छ/. SeeNepali phonology | |
| Portuguese | European[45] | parte sem vida | [ˈpaɾt͡sẽjˈviðɐ] | 'lifeless part' | Allophone of/t/ before/i,ĩ/, or assimilation due to the deletion of/i~ɨ~e/. Increasingly used in Brazil.[46] |
| Brazilian[45][46] | participação | [paʁt͡sipaˈsɐ̃w̃] | 'participation' | ||
| Most speakers[47] | shiatsu | [ɕiˈat͡su] | 'shiatsu' | Marginal sound. Many Brazilians might break the affricate with epenthetic[i], often subsequently palatalizing/t/, specially in pre-tonic contexts (e.g.tsunami[tɕisuˈnɜ̃mʲi]).[48] SeePortuguese phonology | |
| Spanish | Madrid[49] | ancha | [ˈänʲt͡sʲä] | 'wide' | Palatalized;[49] with an apical fricative component. It corresponds to[t͡ʃ] in standard Spanish. SeeSpanish phonology |
| Chilean | |||||
| SomeRioplatense dialects | tía | [ˈt͡siä] | 'aunt' | ||
| SomeVenezuelan dialects | zorro | [ˈt͡so̞ro̞] | 'fox' | Allophone of/s/ word initially. | |
| Tamil | Jaffna Tamil | சந்தை/cantai | [t͡sɐn̪d̪ɛi̯] | 'market' | Rare, other realizations include[t͡ʃ,ʃ,s].[50] |
| Telugu | ౘట్టి/ĉaṭṭi | [t͡sɐʈʈi] | 'pot' | ||
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German | Standard[51] | Zeit | [t͡säɪ̯t] | 'time' | The fricative component varies between dentalized laminal, non-retracted laminal and non-retracted apical.[51] SeeStandard German phonology |
| Italian | Standard[52] | grazia | [ˈɡrät̚t͡sjä] | 'grace' | The fricative component varies between dentalized laminal and non-retracted apical. In the latter case, the stop component is laminaldenti-alveolar.[52] SeeItalian phonology |
| Voiceless alveolar non-sibilant affricate | |
|---|---|
| tɹ̝̊ |
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect[32] | verbèganger | [vərˈbɛːɣäŋət͡ɹ̝̊] | 'passer-by' | A possible realization of word-final/r/ before pauses.[32] |
| English | General American[53] | tree | [t͡ɹ̝̊ʷɪi̯]ⓘ | 'tree' | Phonetic realization of the stressed, syllable-initial sequence/tr/; more commonly postalveolar[t̠ɹ̠̊˔].[53] SeeEnglish phonology |
| Received Pronunciation[53] | |||||
| Italian | Sicily[54] | straniero | [st͡ɹ̝̊äˈnjɛɾo] | 'foreign' | Apical. Regional realization of the sequence/tr/; may be a sequence[tɹ̝̊] or[tɹ̝] instead.[55] SeeItalian phonology |
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