A palato-alveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet with . In some languages it is phonemically a palatal ejective.
Features Features of a palato-alveolar ejective affricate:
Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Abkhaz / 'neatly' or 'tidily' See Abkhaz phonology Adyghe / 'short' Amharic / 'moon' Armenian Yerevan dialect / 'branch' Corresponds to tenuis in other Eastern dialects. Avar / 'hello' Aymara 'ch'uspa' Chechen / 'fish' Georgian / 'well' (noun) Hadza 'rock hyrax' Hausa 'cricket' Only found in western Hausa dialects. Kabardian / 'tail' Keres 'six' Laz / 'squeaky' Lushootseed 'one' Mingrelian / 'ant' Ossetian Kudairag 'Tskhinval' Q'eqchi' 'earth' Quechua 'brown' Svan / 'marsh' Sechelt 'Sechelt' Tlingit 'duck'
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