The uvular ejective 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 w ...
al sound, used in some spoken
language
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s. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is . It is found in some
North American languages of the Pacific Northwest such as
Wintu
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and
Lillooet
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, southern African languages such as
Gǀui and
ǂʼAmkoe, and in many of the languages of the Caucasus, especially a number of the
Daghestanian languages, though in none of these is there a phonemic distinction between and , and in many and are allophones. A number of languages of southern Africa have a sound, commonly transcribed , that may be ambiguous between velar and uvular.
Features
Features of the uvular ejective affricate:
Occurrence
See also
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List of phonetic topics
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar ejective ...
References
External links
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Uvular consonants
Affricates
Ejectives