| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
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| Arabic | Najdi[26] | كلب/tsalb | [t͡salb] | 'dog' | Corresponds to/k/ and/t͡ʃ/ in other dialects |
| Asturian | Some dialects[27] | otso | [ˈot͡so] | 'eight' | Corresponds to standard/t͡ʃ/ |
| Ḷḷena,Mieres, and others | ḷḷuna | [ˈt͡sunɐ] | 'moon' | Alveolar realization ofche vaqueira instead of normal retroflex[ʈ͡ʂ] |
| Basque[5] | hots | [ot̻͡s̺] | 'sound' | The fricative component is apical. Contrasts with a laminal affricate with a dentalized fricative component.[5] |
| Blackfoot[28] | ᖹᒧᐧᒣᑯ /Niitsítapii | [niːt͡sɪ́tʌpiː] | 'original person' or 'Blackfoot Person' | |
| Catalan[29] | potser | [puˈt̻͡s̺(ː)e] | 'maybe' | The fricative component is apical. Only restricted to morpheme boundaries, some linguistics do not consider it a phoneme (but a sequence of[t] +[s]). Long and short versions of intervocalic affricates are in free variation in Central Catalan[tsː] ~[ts]. SeeCatalan phonology |
| Central Alaskan Yup'ik[30] | cetaman | [t͡səˈtaman] | 'four' | Allophone of/t͡ʃ/ beforeschwa |
| Chamorro[31] | CHamoru | [t͡sɑˈmoːɾu] | 'Chamorro' | SpelledChamoru in the orthography used in theNorthern Mariana Islands. |
| Chechen | цаца /caca /ر̤ار̤ا | [t͡sət͡sə] | 'sieve' | |
| Cherokee[32] | ᏣᎳᎩtsalagi | [t͡salaɡi] | 'Cherokee' | |
| Danish | Standard[33] | to | [ˈt̻͡s̺ʰoːˀ] | 'two' | The fricative component is apical.[33] In some accents, it is realized as[tʰ].[33] Usually transcribed/tˢ/ or/t/. Contrasts with the unaspirated stop[t], which is usually transcribed/d̥/ or/d/. SeeDanish phonology |
| Dargwa | цадеш /ꞩadeş /ڝادەش | [t͡sadeʃ] | 'unity, oneness' | |
| Dutch | Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect[34] | mat | [ˈmät͡s] | 'market' | Optional pre-pausal allophone of/t/.[34] SeeOrsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect phonology |
| English | BroadCockney[35] | tea | [ˈt͡səˑi̯] | 'tea' | Possible word-initial, intervocalic and word-final allophone of/t/.[36][37] SeeEnglish phonology |
| Received Pronunciation[37] | [ˈt͡sɪˑi̯] |
| New York[38] | Possible syllable-initial and sometimes also utterance-final allophone of/t/.[38] SeeEnglish phonology |
| New Zealand[39] | Word-initial allophone of/t/.[39] SeeEnglish phonology |
| North Wales[40] | [ˈt͡siː] | Word-initial and word-final allophone of/t/; in free variation with a strongly aspirated stop[tʰ].[40] SeeEnglish phonology |
| Port Talbot[41] | Allophone of/t/. In free variation with[tʰʰ].[41] |
| Scouse[42] | Possible syllable-initial and word-final allophone of/t/.[42] SeeEnglish phonology |
| GeneralSouth African[43] | wanting | [ˈwɑnt͡sɪŋ] | 'wanting' | Possible syllable-final allophone of/t/.[43] |
| Esperanto | cico | ['t͡sit͡so] | 'nipple' | SeeEsperanto phonology |
| Filipino | tsokolate | [t͡sokɔlate] | 'chocolate' | |
| French | Quebec | tu | [t͡sy] | 'you' | Allophone of/t/ before/i,y/. |
| Georgian[44] | კაცი/k'atsi | [kʼɑt͡si] | 'man' | |
| Haida | x̱ants | [ʜʌnt͡s] | 'shadow' | Allophone of/t͡ʃ/.[45] |
| Hebrew | צל/tzel | [t͡se̞l] | 'shadow' | |
| Luxembourgish[46] | Zuch | [t͡suχ] | 'train' | SeeLuxembourgish phonology |
| Marathi | चमचा/tsamtsā | ['t͡səmt͡saː] | 'spoon' | Represented by <च>, which also represents[t͡ʃ]. It is not a marked difference. |
| Nepali | चाप/tsāp | [t͡säp] | 'pressure' | Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated versions. The unaspirated is represented by /च/. The aspirated sound is represented by /छ/. SeeNepali phonology |
| Portuguese | European[47] | parte sem vida | [ˈpaɾt͡sẽjˈviðɐ] | 'lifeless part' | Allophone of/t/ before/i,ĩ/, or assimilation due to the deletion of/i~ɨ~e/. Increasingly used in Brazil.[48] |
| Brazilian[47][48] | participação | [paʁt͡sipaˈsɐ̃w̃] | 'participation' |
| Most speakers[49] | shiatsu | [ɕiˈat͡su] | 'shiatsu' | Marginal sound. Many Brazilians might break the affricate with epenthetic[i], often subsequently palatalizing/t/, specially in pre-tonic contexts (e.g.tsunami[tɕisuˈnɜ̃mʲi]).[50] SeePortuguese phonology |
| Spanish | Madrid[51] | ancha | [ˈänʲt͡sʲä] | 'wide' | Palatalized;[51] with an apical fricative component. It corresponds to[t͡ʃ] in standard Spanish. SeeSpanish phonology |
| Chilean |
| SomeRioplatense dialects | tía | ['t͡siä] | 'aunt' |
| SomeVenezuelan dialects | zorro | [ˈt͡so̞ro̞] | 'fox' | Allophone of/s/ word initially. |
| Tamil | Jaffna Tamil | சந்தை/cantai | [t͡sɐn̪d̪ɛi̯] | 'market' | Rare, other realizations include[t͡ʃ,ʃ,s].[52] |
| Telugu | ౘట్టి/ĉaṭṭi | [t͡sɐʈʈi] | 'pot' | |