| Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| tɕ | |||
| ʨ | |||
| cɕ | |||
| IPA number | 215 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity(decimal) | ʨ | ||
| Unicode(hex) | U+02A8 | ||
| X-SAMPA | t_s\ | ||
| |||
Avoiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in somespokenlanguages. The symbols in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are ⟨t͡ɕ⟩, ⟨t͜ɕ⟩. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨tɕ⟩. There is also a ligature ⟨ʨ⟩, which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Occasionally the stop component is transcribed ⟨c⟩.[citation needed] An older transcription that indicated approximately the same sound was ⟨tʆ⟩.
⟨t⟩ is a broad transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as ⟨t̠ʲ⟩ (retracted andpalatalized[t]). There is also a para-IPA letter ⟨ȶ⟩. Therefore, narrow transcriptions include ⟨t̠ʲɕ⟩ and ⟨ȶɕ⟩. However, this is not normally done because the stop component is by default assumed to be homorganic with the fricative component of the consonant.
[tɕ] occurs in languages such asMandarin Chinese,Japanese,Polish,Serbo-Croatian orRussian, and is thesibilant equivalent of thevoiceless palatal affricate.U+107AB 𐞫MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL is asuperscript IPA letter.[1]
Features of a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bengali | চিতল /citol | [ˈtɕit̪ol] | 'Chitala chitala' | Contrasts aspirated form. SeeBengali phonology | ||
| Burmese | ကျ /kyạ | [t͡ɕä̰ʔ] | 'to fall' | SeeBurmese phonology | ||
| Catalan[2] | All dialects | fletxa | [ˈfɫe̞(t̚)t͡ɕə] | 'arrow' | SeeCatalan phonology | |
| Valencian | xec | [ˈt͡ɕe̞k] | 'cheque' | |||
| Chinese | Cantonese | 豬 /Yale:jyū /Jyutping:zyu¹ | [t͡ɕyː˥]ⓘ | 'pig' | Contrasts with aspirated form. Allophone of/t͡s/, usually in front of the front high vowels/iː/,/ɪ/,/yː/. SeeCantonese phonology | |
| Mandarin | 北京 /Běijīng | [peɪ̯˨˩.t͡ɕiŋ˥]ⓘ | 'Beijing' | Contrasts with aspirated form. Pronounced by some speakers as a palatalized dental. Incomplementary distribution with[t͡s],[k], and[ʈ͡ʂ] series. SeeStandard Chinese phonology | ||
| Chuvash | чипер /çiper | [t͡ɕʲi̞ˈp̬ʲɛ̝r] | 'cute' | |||
| Danish[3] | tjener | [ˈt͡ɕeːnɐ] | 'servant' | Normal realization of the sequence/tj/.[3] SeeDanish phonology | ||
| Dutch | gaatjes | [ˈɣaːt͡ɕəs]ⓘ | 'little holes' | |||
| Dzongkha | ཆུ /chu | [t͡ɕʰu˥] | 'water' | |||
| Irish | Some dialects[4][5][6] | tír | [t͡ɕiːɾʲ] | 'country' | Realization of the palatalized alveolar stop/tʲ/ in dialects such as Erris, Teelin and Tourmakeady.[4][5][6] SeeIrish phonology | |
| Japanese | 知人 /chijin | [t͡ɕi(d)ʑĩ́ɴ] | 'acquaintance' | SeeJapanese phonology | ||
| Kalmyk | чееҗ /cheej | [t͡ɕeːd͡ʑə̟́] | 'chest' | |||
| Karen | S'gaw Karen | ကၠိ | [t͡ɕó] | 'school' | ||
| Eastern Pwo | ကျုင်း | [t͡ɕə́ɯ̯̃ɴ] | 'to be lazy' | |||
| Western Pwo | ကၠုၧၪ့ | [t͡ɕə̀] | 'to be lazy' | |||
| Korean | South | 제비 /jebi | [t͡ɕebi] | 'swallow' | SeeKorean phonology | |
| Kyrgyz | Kizilsu dialects | чоң /chong | [t͡ɕʰoŋ] | 'big' | Corresponds to postalveolar[tʃ] in standard Kyrgyz. SeeKyrgyz phonology | |
| Marathi | चिंच /ciñca | [t͡ɕint̪͡sə] | 'tamarind' | Contrasts with aspirated form. Allophone of[tʃ]. SeeMarathi phonology | ||
| Mongolian | Khalkha | жил /jil | [t͡ɕiɬ] | 'year' | SeeMongolian phonology | |
| Okinawan | 'ucinaaguci | [ʔut͡ɕinaːɡut͡ɕi] | 'Okinawan language' | Merged with[ts]. | ||
| Polish[7] | ćma | [t͡ɕmä]ⓘ | 'moth' | SeePolish phonology | ||
| Romanian | Banat dialect[8] | frate | [ˈfrat͡ɕe] | 'brother' | Allophone of/t/ before front vowels. Corresponds to[t] in standard Romanian. SeeRomanian phonology | |
| Russian | чуть /čutj | [t͡ɕʉtʲ] | 'barely' | SeeRussian phonology | ||
| Sema[9] | akichi | [à̠kìt͡ɕì] | 'mouth' | Possible allophone of/t͡ʃ/ before/i,e/; can be realized as[t͡ʃ] instead.[9] | ||
| Serbo-Croatian[10] | лећа /leća | [lět͡ɕä] | 'lentils' | Merges into/t͡ʃ/ in dialects that do not distinguish /ʈ͡ʂ/ from/t͡ɕ/. | ||
| Slovene | Dialects withtʼ–č distinction (such asResian) | teči | [ˈt̪ɛ̀ːt͡ɕì] | 'con artist' | In Standard Slovene obsolete. SeeSlovene phonology | |
| Sorbian | Lower[11] | šćit | [ɕt͡ɕit̪] | 'protection' | ||
| Swedish | Finland | kjol | [t͡ɕuːl] | 'skirt' | SeeSwedish phonology | |
| Thai[12] | จาน /cān | [t͡ɕaːn] | 'dish' | Contrasts with aspirated form. | ||
| Tuvan | чон /chon | [t͡ɕʰɔ̝n] | 'people' | |||
| Urarina[13] | katsa | [kat͡ɕá] | 'man' | |||
| Uyghur | چوڭ /chong /чоң | [t͡ɕʰoŋ] | 'big' | |||
| Uzbek[14] | chumoli /чумоли | [t͡ɕʊ̟mɒ̽ˈlɪ̞] | 'ant' | Often transcribed as/tʃ/. SeeUzbek phonology | ||
| Vietnamese | cha | [t͡ɕa] | 'father' | SeeVietnamese phonology | ||
| Xumi[15][16] | [t͡ɕɐ˦] | 'star' | ||||
| Yi | ꏢ /ji | [t͡ɕi˧] | 'sour' | Contrastsaspirated and unaspirated forms | ||
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