Alveolar ejective affricate

Alveolar ejective affricate
Alveolar ejective affricate
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An alveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨t͡sʼ⟩ or ⟨t͜sʼ⟩.

Features

Features of an alveolar ejective affricate:

Its manner of articulation is sibilant affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the air flow entirely, then directing it with the tongue to the sharp edge of the teeth, causing high-frequency turbulence.
Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
It is a median consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream down the midline of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Abaza		хъацIа / qac'a	[qat͡sʼa]	'man'
Abkhaz		днықәҵан / dnyķwc̄an	[dnɨkʷʰt͡sʼan]	'put'
Adyghe		папцӀэ / pápc'a	[pʰaːpt͡sʼa]^ⓘ	'sharp'
Amharic		ፀጉር / cegur	[t͡sʼəgur]	'hair'
Armenian	Yerevan dialect	ծառ / caŕ	[t͡sʼɑr]	'tree'	Corresponds to tenuis [t͡s⁼] in other Eastern dialects.
Avar		мацӀ / mac'	[mat͡sʼ]	'language'
Chechen		цIе / c'e / ڗە	[t͡sʼe]	'name'
Georgian^[1]		წელი / c'eli	[t͡sʼeli]	'year'
Hadza		zzapale	[t͡sʼapaɾe]	'digging stick'
Haida		ttsanskkaagid	[t͡sʼanskʼaːkit]	'beams'
Hausa		tsoro	[t͡sʼoro]	'fear'
Kabardian		цӀэ / çe / ڗە	[t͡sʼa]^ⓘ	'name'
Lak		цIа / ċа / ڗا	[t͡sʼa]	'name'^[2]
Laz	Atina-Artasheni dialect	წუნა / ǯuna	[t͡sʼunɑ]	'pain' or 'ache'
Laz	Vitse dialect	წკუნა / ǯǩuna	[t͡sʼk’unɑ]	'pain' or 'ache'
Lushootseed	Northern Lushootseed	c̓uʔkʷs	[t͡sʼuʔkʷs]	'seven'
Lushootseed	Southern Lushootseed	c̓uʔkʷs	[t͡sʼoʔkʷs]	'seven'
North Straits Salish	Saanich^[3]		[t̪s̪ʼˈakʼʷiʔ]	'skunk cabbage'	Rarely realized as [t̪θʼ]^[3]
Nuxalk		tsʼxw	[t͡sʼχʷ]	'white'
Ossetian	Iron	цъæх / c'ah	[t͡sʼəχ]	'blue' or 'green'
Q'eqchi'		tzʼiʼ	[t͡sʼiʔ]	'dog'
Tlingit		tsʼankwaat	[t͡sʼankʷʰaːt]	'spider'

↑ Shosted, Ryan K.; Chikovani, Vakhtang (2006). "Standard Georgian" (PDF). Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 36 (2): 255–264. doi:10.1017/S0025100306002659. ISSN 1475-3502.
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1 2 Montler, Timothy (1986), "An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish", Occasional Papers in Linguistics (4), Missoula, MT: University of Montana Linguistics Laboratory (Web version of the author's PhD dissertation, University of Hawaiʻi).