A voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are , . The tie bar may be omitted, yielding . There is also a ligature , which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Occasionally the stop component is transcribed . An older transcription that indicated approximately the same sound was .
is a broad transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as (retracted and palatalized ). There is also a para-IPA letter . Therefore, narrow transcriptions include and . However, this is not normally done because the stop component is by default assumed to be homorganic with the fricative component of the consonant.
occurs in languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Serbo-Croatian or Russian, and is the sibilant equivalent of the voiceless palatal affricate. is a superscript IPA letter.
Features
Features of a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate:
Occurrence
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! colspan=2| Language !! Word !! IPA !! Meaning !! Notes
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| colspan="2" |Bengali
|চিতল /
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| || Contrasts aspirated form. See Bengali phonology
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| colspan="2" |Burmese
|ကျ /
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|'to fall' || See Burmese phonology
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| rowspan=2| Catalan ||All dialects || || || 'arrow'|| rowspan="2" | See Catalan phonology
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| Valencian || || || 'cheque'
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| rowspan=2|Chinese || Cantonese || / Yale: / Jyutping: || ||'pig'|| Contrasts with aspirated form. Allophone of , usually in front of the front high vowels , , . See Cantonese phonology
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|Mandarin || / || || 'Beijing' || Contrasts with aspirated form. Pronounced by some speakers as a palatalized dental. In complementary distribution with , , and series. See Standard Chinese phonology
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| colspan="2" |Chuvash || / || || 'cute' ||
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| colspan="2" | Danish || || || 'servant' || Normal realization of the sequence . || || || 'country' || Realization of the palatalized alveolar stop in dialects such as Erris, Teelin and Tourmakeady. || || || 'moth'|| See Polish phonology
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| Romanian|| Banat dialect || || || 'brother' || Allophone of before front vowels. Corresponds to in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Russian || / || || 'barely'|| See Russian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Sema || || || 'mouth' || Possible allophone of before ; can be realized as instead. || / || || 'dish'|| Contrasts with aspirated form.
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| colspan="2" | Tuvan || / || || 'people'||
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| colspan="2" |Urarina
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|'man'
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| colspan="2" | Uyghur|| / / || || 'big' ||
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| colspan="2" | Uzbek || chumoli / || || 'ant' || Often transcribed as . See Uzbek phonology
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| colspan="2" | Vietnamese || || || 'father' || See Vietnamese phonology
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| colspan="2" | Xumi || colspan=2 align=center | || 'star' ||
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| colspan="2" | Yi|| / || || 'sour' || Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms
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See also
- Index of phonetics articles