The palatal ejective is a type of
consonant
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al sound used in some spoken
language
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s, and the symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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(IPA) that represents this sound is ⟨cʼ⟩.
Also the symbol ⟨t͡ʃʼ⟩ represents a palatal ejective affricate, which combines the sounds of a palatal stop
͡ʃand an ejective release
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Features
Some of the features of the palatal ejective stop are:
Occurrence
See also
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List of phonetics 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 e ...
References
External links
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Ejectives
Palatal consonants
Oral consonants
Central consonants