The voiceless glottal 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 wi ...

al sound, used in some spoken

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s. The symbols in the

International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation ...

that represent this sound are and , and the equivalent

X-SAMPA The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London. It is designed to unify the individual language SAMPA alphabets, a ...

symbol is ?_h. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding in the IPA and ?h in X-SAMPA.

Features

Features of the voiceless glottal affricate:

Occurrence

Notes

References

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Voiceless Glottal Affricate Affricates Glottal consonants Pulmonic consonants Voiceless oral consonants Central consonants