Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate

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 Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Bengali চিতল / '' Contrasts with aspirated forms. See Bengali phonologyBurmese ကျ / 'to fall' See Burmese phonology Catalan Most dialects 'car' See Catalan phonology Valencian 'cheque' Usual initial and post-consonantal affrication found in Standard Valencian. See Catalan phonology Central Valencian 'means' Devoiced allophone of in parts of Central Valencian and Eastern Aragon. See Catalan phonology 'game' Devoiced allophone of (i.e., in Eastern Catalan) in parts of Central Valencian and Eastern Aragon. See Catalan phonology Some dialects 'all', 'everyone' Coda allophone of found in some cases in some dialects. See Catalan phonologyChinese Cantonese / Yale: / Jyutping: 'pig' Contrasts with aspirated form. Allophone of , usually in front of the front high vowels , , . See Cantonese phonologyMandarin / 'Beijing' Contrasts with aspirated form. Pronounced by some speakers as a palatalized dental. In complementary distribution with , , and series. See Standard Chinese phonologyChuvash / 'cute' Danish 'servant' Normal realization of the sequence . See Danish phonology Dutch 'little holes' Dzongkha / 'water' Frainc-Comtoucïntçhe'five' Irish Some dialects 'country' Realization of the palatalized alveolar stop in dialects such as Erris, Teelin and Tourmakeady. See Irish phonology Japanese / 'acquaintance' See Japanese phonology Kalmyk / 'chest' Karen S'gaw Karen 'school' Eastern Pwo 'to be lazy' Western Pwo 'to be lazy' Korean South / 'swallow' See Korean phonology Kyrgyz Kizilsu dialects / 'big' Corresponds to postalveolar in standard Kyrgyz. See Kyrgyz phonology Marathi / 'tamarind' Contrasts with aspirated form. Allophone of [tʃ]. See Marathi phonologyMochica Mongolian Khalkha / 'year' See Mongolian phonology Okinawan 'Okinawan language' Merged with [ts]. Polish 'moth' See Polish phonology Romanian Banat dialect 'brother' Allophone of before front vowels. Corresponds to in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology Russian / 'barely' See Russian phonology Sema 'mouth' Possible allophone of before ; can be realized as instead. Serbo-Croatian / 'lentils' Merges into in dialects that do not distinguish / from .SloveneDialects with tʼ–č distinction (such as Resian)'con artist'In Standard Slovene obsolete. See Slovene phonology Sorbian Lower 'protection' Swedish Finland 'skirt' See Swedish phonology Thai / 'dish' Contrasts with aspirated form. Tuvan / 'people'Udmurtчорыг[t͡ɕoˈrɯ̈k]'fish'Urarina'man' Uyghur / / 'big' Uzbek chumoli / 'ant' Often transcribed as . See Uzbek phonology Vietnamese 'father' See Vietnamese phonology Xumi 'star' Yi / 'sour' Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms

Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate

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