The velar lateral ejective affricate is a rare 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 ...

al sound, used in some spoken

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s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (

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; strict IPA: ). It is found in two forms in Archi, a Northeast Caucasian language of

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, plain and

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. It is further forward than

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s in most languages, and might better be called ''prevelar''. Archi also has

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(

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) variants of its lateral affricates, several

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s, and a

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at the same

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, but no alveolar lateral fricatives or

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. is also found as an

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of (ejective after a nasal) in Zulu and Xhosa, and of the

velar ejective affricate The velar 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 . is a common realization of a velar ejective often transcribed , and ...

in Hadza. In the latter, it contrasts with palatal , as in 'to cradle'. In fact, the velar ejective is reported to be lateral, or to have a lateral allophone, in various languages of Africa which have clicks, including Taa, various varieties of !Kung, Gǁana (including Gǀui dialect),

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(ǁAni dialect), and

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.Hirosi Nakagawa, 1996. ''An Outline of Gǀui Phonology''.

Features

Features of the velar lateral ejective affricate:

Occurrence

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* {{IPA navigation Affricates Lateral consonants Velar consonants Ejectives Oral consonants

Features

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