A uvular lateral ejective affricate is a rare type of consonantal sound, used allophonically in some spoken languages.
Features Features of a uvular lateral ejective affricate:
Occurrence +LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotesǂʼAmkoe 'dark' Occurs in apparently free variation with the uvular ejective affricate , both as a single consonant and as the release of contour clicks and other obstruents, which in some analyses are considered consonant clusters.Linda Gerlach (2016: 86, 104) Nǃaqriaxe. Harrassowitz, WiesbadenGǀui 'drink' Occurs as a single consonant. This lateral affricate is more front than the central affricate release of the consonants and analogous clicks, but it behaves as a uvular in that it cannot precede a non-back vowel.Hirosi Nakagawa (2006: 123) Aspects of the phonetic and phonological structure of the Gǀui language. University of the Witwatersrand.
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