| Voiced epiglottal affricate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ʡʢ | |||
| IPA number | 173 174 | ||
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Avoiced epiglottal affricate ([ʡ͜ʢ] inIPA) is a rareaffricate consonant that is initiated as anepiglottal stop[ʡ] and released as avoiced epiglottal fricative[ʢ]. It has not been reported to occurphonemically in any language.
Features of a voiced epiglottal affricate:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haida | Hydaburg dialect[1] | [example needed] | May be a stop[ʡ] or voiceless affricate[ʡ͜ʜ] instead.[1][dubious –discuss] | ||
| Somali | cad | [ʡ͜ʢaʔ͜t] | 'white' | Only pronounced[ʡ͜ʢ] when 'c' occurs initially, otherwise realized as [ʡ][2] | |