Voiceless postalveolar affricate: Difference between revisions

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| [[IPA]]: || t͡ʃ ''or'' ʧ
| [[IPA]]: || t͡ʃ ''or'' ʧ
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| [[X-SAMPA]]: || <tt>t_S</tt>
| [[X-SAMPA]]: || <tt>t_S</tt> ''or'' <tt>tS</tt> ''(see text)''
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| [[Kirshenbaum]]: || tS
| [[Kirshenbaum]]: || tS
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The voiceless postalveolar affricate is a quite common sound cross-linguistically. It often arises from [[Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] before a high vowel or [[Palatal approximant|j]]. Its voiced equivalent is [[Voiced alveolar affricate|dʒ]]. It can also be ejective, [[Postalveolar ejective affricate|tʃʼ]].
The voiceless postalveolar affricate is a quite common sound cross-linguistically. It often arises from [[Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] before a high vowel or [[Palatal approximant|j]]. Its voiced equivalent is [[Voiced alveolar affricate|dʒ]]. It can also be ejective, [[Postalveolar ejective affricate|tʃʼ]].
In [[X-SAMPA]] it can be represented explicitly as <tt>[t_S]</tt>, though for convenience it can also be represented as <tt>[tS]</tt>, using the disjunctor hyphen (thus <tt>[t-S]</tt>) when it is important to emphasize the separateness of the <tt>[t]</tt> and the <tt>[S]</tt>.


===Postalveolar affricates in natlangs===
===Postalveolar affricates in natlangs===

Revision as of 12:40, 17 October 2004

Pulmonic Consonant
IPA: t͡ʃ or ʧ
X-SAMPA: t_S or tS (see text)
Kirshenbaum: tS
Place of Articulation: Postalveolar
Manner of Articulation: Affricate
Phonological features: [+consonantal]
[+delayed release]
[+CORONAL]
  [+distributed]
  [+strident]

The voiceless postalveolar affricate is a quite common sound cross-linguistically. It often arises from t before a high vowel or j. Its voiced equivalent is . It can also be ejective, tʃʼ.

In X-SAMPA it can be represented explicitly as [t_S], though for convenience it can also be represented as [tS], using the disjunctor hyphen (thus [t-S]) when it is important to emphasize the separateness of the [t] and the [S].

Postalveolar affricates in natlangs

English

Plain ch chin /tʃɪn/

Japanese

Plain ち (chi) 父 /titi/ [t͡ʃit͡ʃi]

Nahuatl

Plain ch tōchtli /toːtʃtɬi/

Spanish

Plain ch coche /kotʃe/

Postalveolar affricates in conlangs

Ithkuil

Plain č čuņ /tʃuŋ/
Aspirated čʰ čʰed /tʃʰed/
Ejective č’ qömč’oi /qœmtʃʼoi/

See Also