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Avelar ejective affricate is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in somespokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨kxʼ⟩.[kxʼ] is a common realization of avelar ejective often transcribed/kʼ/, and it is rare for a language to distinguish/kʼ/ and/kxʼ/, though several of theNguni languages do so,^[1] as well as theNortheast Caucasian languageKarata-Tukita.

Features of a velar 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 isvelar, which means it is articulated with the back of thetongue (the dorsum) at thesoft palate.
• 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.

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• Velar consonants
• Ejectives
• Oral consonants
• Central consonants

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