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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, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...
al sound, used in some spoken
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s. The symbol in the
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that represents this sound is . It is found in some North American languages of the Pacific Northwest such as
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and
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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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alveolar Lateral Ejective Fricative Uvular consonants Affricates Ejectives