Adental ejective fricative is a rare type ofconsonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨θʼ⟩.

Features of a dental ejective fricative:

• Itsmanner of articulation isfricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causingturbulence.
• Itsplace of articulation isdental, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the upperteeth, termed respectivelyapical andlaminal. Note that most stops and liquids described as dental are actuallydenti-alveolar.
• 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.

[θʼ] occurs inModern South Arabian languages and is also reconstructed for the hypotheticalProto-Semitic language.^[1]

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