Avoiceless velar lateral affricate is a relatively uncommon speech sound found as a phoneme in theCaucasus and as anallophone in several languages of eastern and southern Africa. In traditionalIPA, it needs to be transcribed with diacritics, but a proper letter exists inextIPA:⟨k͜𝼄⟩.
InHiw, a language spoken inVanuatu, a lateral affricate occurs as an allophone of/g͡ʟ/, a prestopped velar lateral.[1]
Itsmanner of articulation isaffricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
Itsphonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
It is anoral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
It is alateral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue, rather than down the middle.
Itsmanner of articulation isaffricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
Its place of articulation is post-palatal (or pre-velar; also called palato-velar, retracted palatal, backed palatal, advanced velar or fronted velar), which means it is articulated between the position ofpalatal consonants andvelar consonants.
Itsphonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
It is anoral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
It is alateral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue, rather than down the middle.
^abcChumakina, Marina; Corbett, Greville G.; Brown, Dunstan (September 2008).The Archi Language Tutorial(PDF). LAGB meeting. University of Essex. The source uses the symbol for thevoiceless alveolar lateral fricative for the fricative part of this sound (⟨k͡ɬ⟩), but also indicates the sound to be prevelar.
