| Voiceless retroflex affricate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ʈʂ | |||
| tʂ | |||
| ꭧ | |||
| IPA number | 105 (136) | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity(decimal) | ʈ͡ʂ | ||
| Unicode(hex) | U+0288 U+0361 U+0282 | ||
| X-SAMPA | ts` | ||
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Avoiceless retroflex sibilant affricate is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in somespokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʈ͡ʂ⟩ or ⟨t̠͡ʂ⟩, often simplified to ⟨tʂ⟩. There is also a ligature ⟨ꭧ⟩, which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used.
Alaminal variant occurs inPolishcz, and anapical variant in theIndo-Aryan languages.
Features of a voiceless retroflex affricate:
The affricate occurs in a number of languages:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | аҽада | [at͡ʂʰada]ⓘ | 'donkey' | SeeAbkhaz phonology | |
| Adyghe | чъыгы | [t͡ʂəɣə]ⓘ | 'tree' | SeeAdyghe phonology | |
| Asturian | Some dialects[1][2] | ḷḷobu | [t̠͡ʂoβu] | 'wolf' | Corresponds to standard/ʎ/. |
| Belarusian | пачатак | [pat̠͡ʂatak] | 'the beginning' | Laminal. SeeBelarusian phonology | |
| Chinese | Mandarin[3] | 中文 /Zhōngwén | [ʈ̺͡ʂ̺ʊŋ˥u̯ən˧˥]ⓘ | 'Chinese language' | Apical.[4] Contrasts with aspirated form. SeeMandarin phonology |
| Hmong | White Hmong | 𖬒𖬶𖬯𖬵 /txov | [tso˨˦] | 'lion' or 'tiger' | |
| Khanty | Eastern dialects | ҷӓңҷ | [t̠͡ʂaɳt̠͡ʂ] | 'knee' | Corresponds to avoiceless retroflex fricative/ʂ/ in the northern dialects. |
| Southern dialects | |||||
| Mapudungun | trafoy | [t̠͡ʂa.ˈfoj] | 'it got broken' | Contrasts with a voiceless postalveolar affricate:chafoy[t͡ʃa.ˈfoj] 'he/she coughed' | |
| Northern Qiang | zhes | [t̠͡ʂəs] | 'day before yesterday' | Contrasts with aspirated and voiced forms. | |
| Polish | Standard[5][6] | czas | [ˈt̠͡ʂäs̪]ⓘ | 'time' | Laminal. Transcribed/t͡ʃ/ by most Polish scholars. SeePolish phonology |
| Southeastern Cuyavian dialects[7] | cena | [ˈt̠͡ʂɛn̪ä] | 'price' | Some speakers. It is a result of hypercorrecting the more popular merger of/t̠͡ʂ/ and/t͡s/ into[t͡s]. | |
| Suwałki dialect[8] | |||||
| Quechua | Cajamarca–Cañaris | chupa | [t̠͡ʂupə] | 'tail' | |
| Russian | лу́чше / luchshe | [ˈɫut͡ʂʂə]ⓘ | 'better' | ||
| Serbo-Croatian[9] | чеп /čep | [t̠͡ʂe̞p] | 'cork' | Apical. It may bepalato-alveolar instead, depending on the dialect. SeeSerbo-Croatian phonology | |
| Silesian | szczopek | [ʂt̠͡ʂopɛk] | 'pike' | ||
| Slovak[10] | čakať | [ˈt̠͡ʂäkäc] | 'to wait' | Laminal. | |
| Spanish | Chilean[11] | cuatro | [ˈˈkwatʂo] | 'four' | Corresponding to[tɾ] in other dialects. |
| Torwali[12] | ڇووو | [t̠͡ʂuwu] | 'to sew' | Contrasts with aspirated form. | |
| Vietnamese | trà | [t̠͡ʂaː˨˩] | 'tea' | Some speakers. | |
| Yi | ꍈ /zha | [t̠͡ʂa˧] | 'a bit' | Contrasts with aspirated form. | |