Palato-alveolar ejective affricate

The palato-alveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨t͡ʃʼ⟩. In some languages it is equivalent to a palatal ejective.

Palato-alveolar ejective affricate
tʃʼ
ʧʼ
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Features

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Features of the palato-alveolar ejective affricate:

Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Adyghe кӏако [t͡ʃʼaːkʷa] 'short'
Amharic ረቃ [t͡ʃʼərəkʼa] 'moon'
Armenian Yerevan dialect[1] ճյուղ [t͡ʃʼiʊ̯ʁ] 'branch' Corresponds to tenuis [t͡ʃ⁼] in other Eastern dialects.
Avar ворчӀами [wort͡ʃʼami] 'hello'
Aymara ch'uspa [t͡ʃ'uspa] 'ch'uspa'
Chechen чӏара/ç̇ara [t͡ʃʼɑːrə] 'fish'
Georgian /ch’a [t͡ʃʼɑ] 'well' Noun, not adverb
Haida jjabako [t͡ʃʼabako] 'rock hyrax'
Hausa tshanya [t͡ʃʼanja] 'cricket' Only found in western Hausa dialects
Kabardian кӏэ [t͡ʃʼa] 'tail'
Keres shchʼísạ [ʃtʃʼísḁ] 'six'
Laz რაუნირი/ç̌raç̌uniri [t͡ʃʼrat͡ʃʼuniri] 'squeaky'
Lushootseed č̓ [t͡ʃʼʉʔ] 'one'
Mingrelian კიკიტია/čʼḳičʼḳiṭiɑ [t͡ʃʼkʼit͡ʃʼkʼitʼia] 'ant'
Ossetian Kudairag Чъреба [ˈt͡ʃʼɾebä] 'Tskhinval'
Q'eqchi' ch'och' [t͡ʃʼot͡ʃʼ] 'earth'
Quechua ch'umpi [t͡ʃʼʊmpɪ] 'brown'
Svan ლენ/lenčʼ [lɛnt͡ʃʼqʼ] 'marsh'
Tlingit ch'eed [t͡ʃʼit] 'duck'

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Dum-Tragut (2009:17–18)

References

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  • Dum-Tragut, Jasmine (2009), Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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