The voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of
consonant
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al sound, used in some
spoken language
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s. The symbols in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represent this sound are , , and , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA
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symbols are
t_s\ and
c_s\, though transcribing the stop component with (
c in X-SAMPA) is rare. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding or in the IPA and
ts\ or
cs\ in X-SAMPA.
Neither nor are a completely narrow transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as (
retracted and
palatalized ) or (
advanced ). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are
t_-' or
t_-_j and
c_+, respectively. There is also a dedicated symbol , which is not a part of the IPA. Therefore, narrow transcriptions of the voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate include , and .
This affricate used to have a dedicated symbol , which was one of the six dedicated symbols for affricates in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It occurs in languages such as
Mandarin Chinese
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,
Polish,
Serbo-Croatian
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and
Russian, and is the
sibilant
Sibilants are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth. Examples of sibilants are the consonants at the beginning of the English words ''sip'', ''zip'', ''ship'', and ...
equivalent of
voiceless palatal affricate. is a
superscript IPA letter
Features
Features of the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate:
Occurrence
See also
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Index of phonetics articles
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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 e ...
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Affricates
Sibilant consonants
Alveolo-palatal consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Voiceless oral consonants
Central consonants