| Voiceless retroflex affricate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ʈʂ | |||
| tʂ | |||
| ꭧ | |||
| IPA number | 105 (136) | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity(decimal) | ʈ͡ʂ | ||
| Unicode(hex) | U+0288 U+0361 U+0282 | ||
| X-SAMPA | ts` | ||
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Avoiceless retroflex sibilant affricate is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in somespokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʈ͡ʂ⟩ or ⟨t̠͡ʂ⟩, sometimes simplified to ⟨tʂ⟩ or ⟨ꭧ⟩. Its apical variant is ⟨ʈ̺͡ʂ̺⟩ and laminal variant ⟨ʈ̻͡ʂ̻⟩.
Features of a voiceless retroflex affricate:
The affricate occurs in a number of languages:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | аҽада | [at͡ʂʰada]ⓘ | 'donkey' | SeeAbkhaz phonology | |
| Adyghe | чъыгы | [t͡ʂəɣə]ⓘ | 'tree' | SeeAdyghe phonology | |
| Asturian | Some dialects[1][2] | ḷḷobu | [t̠͡ʂoβu] | 'wolf' | Corresponds to standard/ʎ/. |
| Belarusian | пачатак | [pat̠͡ʂatak] | 'the beginning' | Laminal. SeeBelarusian phonology | |
| Chinese | Mandarin[3] | 中文 /Zhōngwén | [ʈ̺͡ʂ̺ʊŋ˥u̯ən˧˥]ⓘ | 'Chinese language' | Apical.[4] Contrasts with aspirated form. SeeMandarin phonology |
| Hmong | White Hmong | 𖬒𖬶𖬯𖬵 /txov | [tso˨˦] | 'lion' or 'tiger' | |
| Khanty | Eastern dialects | ҷӓңҷ | [t̠͡ʂaɳt̠͡ʂ] | 'knee' | Corresponds to avoiceless retroflex fricative/ʂ/ in the northern dialects. |
| Southern dialects | |||||
| Mapudungun | trafoy | [t̠͡ʂa.ˈfoj] | 'it got broken' | Contrasts with a voiceless postalveolar affricate:chafoy[t͡ʃa.ˈfoj] 'he/she coughed' | |
| Northern Qiang | zhes | [t̠͡ʂəs] | 'day before yesterday' | Contrasts with aspirated and voiced forms. | |
| Polish | Standard[5][6] | czas | [ˈt̠͡ʂäs̪]ⓘ | 'time' | Laminal. Transcribed/t͡ʃ/ by most Polish scholars. SeePolish phonology |
| Southeastern Cuyavian dialects[7] | cena | [ˈt̠͡ʂɛn̪ä] | 'price' | Some speakers. It is a result of hypercorrecting the more popular merger of/t̠͡ʂ/ and/t͡s/ into[t͡s]. | |
| Suwałki dialect[8] | |||||
| Quechua | Cajamarca–Cañaris | chupa | [t̠͡ʂupə] | 'tail' | |
| Russian | лу́чше / luchshe | [ˈɫut͡ʂʂə]ⓘ | 'better' | ||
| Serbo-Croatian[9] | чеп /čep | [t̠͡ʂe̞p] | 'cork' | Apical. It may bepalato-alveolar instead, depending on the dialect. SeeSerbo-Croatian phonology | |
| Silesian | szczopek | [ʂt̠͡ʂopɛk] | 'pike' | ||
| Slovak[10] | čakať | [ˈt̠͡ʂäkäc] | 'to wait' | Laminal. | |
| Torwali[11] | ڇووو | [t̠͡ʂuwu] | 'to sew' | Contrasts with aspirated form. | |
| Vietnamese | trà | [t̠͡ʂaː˨˩] | 'tea' | Some speakers. | |
| Yi | ꍈ /zha | [t̠͡ʂa˧] | 'a bit' | Contrasts with aspirated form. | |