Alveolar ejective fricative
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Alveolar ejective fricative | ||
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sʼ | ||
IPA Number | 132 401 | |
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Entity (decimal) | sʼ | |
Unicode (hex) | U+0073 U+02BC | |
X-SAMPA | s_> | |
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Audio sample | ||
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The 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 ⟨sʼ⟩.
Features[]
Features of the alveolar ejective fricative:
- Its manner of articulation is sibilant fricative, which means it is generally produced by channeling air flow along a groove in the back of the tongue up to the place of articulation, at which point it is focused against the sharp edge of the nearly clenched teeth, causing high-frequency turbulence.
- Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
- Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.
Occurrence[]
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Adyghe | Shapsug | сӏэ | ![]() |
'name' | Corresponds to [tsʼ] in other dialects. |
Ganza[1]:101 | [sʼásʼà] | ‘fat, thick’ | |||
Hausa | tsutsa | [sʼusʼa] | worm | Allophone of /tsʼ/ in some dialects | |
Keres | s'eeka | [sʼeːkʰa] | 'sure' | ||
Lakota | [example needed] | ||||
Tlingit | sʼeek | ![]() |
'bear' | ||
Upper Necaxa Totonac | [ˈsʼa̰ta̰] | 'small' |
See also[]
- List of phonetic topics
References[]
- ^ Smolders, Joshua (2016). "A Phonology of Ganza" (pdf). Linguistic Discovery. 14 (1): 86–144. doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.470. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
External links[]
- List of languages with [sʼ] on PHOIBLE
Categories:
- Sibilant consonants
- Alveolar consonants
- Fricative consonants
- Ejectives
- Oral consonants
- Central consonants
- Phonetics stubs