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Auvular ejective affricate is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨q͡χʼ⟩. It is found in someNorth American languages of the Pacific Northwest such asWintu andLillooet, southern African languages such asGǀui andǂʼAmkoe, and in many of the languages of the Caucasus, especially a number of theDaghestanian languages, though in none of these is there a phonemic distinction between/qχʼ/ and/qʼ/, and in many[qχʼ] and[qʼ] are allophones. A number of languages of southern Africa have a sound, commonly transcribed[kχʼ], that may be ambiguous between velar and uvular.

Features of a uvular ejective affricate:

• Itsmanner of articulation isaffricate, 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.
• Itsplace of articulation isuvular, which means it is articulated with the back of thetongue (the dorsum) at theuvula.
• Itsphonation is un-voiced, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
• It is anoral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
• It is acentral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
• Theairstream mechanism isejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping theglottis upward.

• Index of phonetics articles

• List of languages with[qχʼ] onPHOIBLE

• Affricates
• Uvular consonants
• Ejectives

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