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| Palato-alveolar ejective affricate | |
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| tʃʼ | |
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Apalato-alveolar ejective affricate is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in somespokenlanguages. The sound is represented in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨t͡ʃʼ⟩. In some languages it is phonemically apalatal ejective.
Features of a palato-alveolar ejective affricate:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | ҷыгәӡа[romanization needed] | [tʃʼəɡʷdza] | 'neatly' or 'tidily' | SeeAbkhaz phonology | |
| Adyghe | кӏако[romanization needed] | [t͡ʃʼaːkʷa]ⓘ | 'short' | ||
| Amharic | ጨረቃ[romanization needed] | [t͡ʃʼərəkʼa]ⓘ | 'moon' | ||
| Armenian | Yerevan dialect[1] | ճյուղ[romanization needed] | [t͡ʃʼiʊ̯ʁ] | 'branch' | Corresponds to tenuis[t͡ʃ⁼] in otherEastern dialects. |
| Avar | ворчӀами[romanization needed] | [wort͡ʃʼami] | 'hello' | ||
| Aymara | ch'uspa | [t͡ʃ'uspa] | 'ch'uspa' | ||
| Chechen | чӏара /ç̇ara | [t͡ʃʼɑːrə] | 'fish' | ||
| Georgian | ჭა /ch’a | [t͡ʃʼɑ] | 'well' (noun) | ||
| Hadza | jjabako | [t͡ʃʼabako] | 'rock hyrax' | ||
| Hausa | tshanya | [t͡ʃʼanja] | 'cricket' | Only found in western Hausa dialects. | |
| Kabardian | кӏэ[romanization needed] | [t͡ʃʼa]ⓘ | 'tail' | ||
| Keres | shchʼísạ | [ʃtʃʼísḁ] | 'six' | ||
| Laz | ჭრაჭუნირი /ç̌raç̌uniri | [t͡ʃʼrat͡ʃʼuniri] | 'squeaky' | ||
| Lushootseed | č̓uʔ | [t͡ʃʼʉʔ] | 'one' | ||
| Mingrelian | ჭკიჭკიტია /čʼḳičʼḳiṭiɑ | [t͡ʃʼkʼit͡ʃʼkʼitʼia] | 'ant' | ||
| Ossetian | Kudairag | Чъреба | [ˈt͡ʃʼɾebä] | 'Tskhinval' | |
| Q'eqchi' | ch'och' | [t͡ʃʼot͡ʃʼ] | 'earth' | ||
| Quechua | ch'umpi | [t͡ʃʼʊmpɪ] | 'brown' | ||
| Svan | ლენჭყ /lenčʼqʼ | [lɛnt͡ʃʼqʼ] | 'marsh' | ||
| Tlingit | ch'eed | [t͡ʃʼit]ⓘ | 'duck' | ||