The palato-alveolar ejective affricate is a type of
consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are and pronounced with the lips; and pronounced with the front of the tongue; and pronounced wit ...
al sound, used in some
spoken language
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s. The sound is represented in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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with . In some languages it is equivalent to a
palatal ejective
The palatal ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
Features
Features of the palatal ejective:
Occurrence
This sound is lar ...
.
Features
Features of the palato-alveolar ejective affricate:
Occurrence
See also
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List of phonetic topics
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar ejectiv ...
Notes
References
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External links
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Affricates
Ejectives
Oral consonants
Central consonants