An alveolar ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
Features
Features of an alveolar ejective fricative:
In many languages, it is allophonic with the affricate [ts'].
Occurrence
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2"|Language !! Word !! IPA!! Meaning !! Notes
|-
| Adyghe || Shapsug || || || 'name' || Corresponds to in other dialects.
|-
| colspan="2" |Amharic
|ፀጉር/cegur
|
|'hair'
|More frequently realized as an affricate .
|-
| colspan="2" | Ganza || colspan="2" align="center" | || ‘fat, thick’ ||
|-
| colspan="2" | Hausa|| || || 'worm' || Allophone of in some dialects
|-
| Keres || Acoma || || || 'we bit it' || Contrasts with other ejective sibilants and .
|-
| colspan="2" | Lakota || || || 'habitually'||
|-
| colspan="2" | Tlingit|| || || 'bear' ||
|-
| colspan="2" | Upper Necaxa Totonac|| colspan="2" align="center" | || 'small' ||
|-
| colspan="2" |Emberá-Catío
| colspan="2" align="center"|
|'type of water jar'
|}
See also
- Index of phonetics articles