A dental ejective fricative is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .

Features Features of a dental ejective fricative:

Occurrence occurs in Modern South Arabian languages and is also reconstructed for the hypothetical Proto-Semitic language.

Language Word IPA Meaning Mehri 'to hate' Yapese 'most'

See also Index of phonetics articles

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