Voiceless alveolar implosive
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A voiceless alveolar implosive is a rare
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 wit ...
al sound, used in some spoken
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s. The symbol in the
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that represents this sound is or . A dedicated IPA letter, , was withdrawn in 1993.


Features

Features of the voiceless alveolar implosive:


Occurrence

is found in Serer of Senegal, the Owere dialect of
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in Nigeria, and in some dialects of the Poqomchi’ and
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s of Guatemala.
Owere Igbo Igbo ( , ; Igbo: ''Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò'' ) is the principal native language cluster of the Igbo people, a meta-ethnicity from Southeastern Nigeria. The number of Igboid languages depends on how one classifies a language versus a dialect, s ...
has a seven-way contrast among alveolar stops, . Mam has a /ɗ̥/ which alternates between ̥and ʼ*


See also

*
Voiced alveolar implosive The voiced alveolar implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based ...


References


External links

* {{IPA navigation Alveolar consonants Implosives Voiceless oral consonants