Voiceless postalveolar affricate: Difference between revisions

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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