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Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate

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Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate
ʨ
IPA number215
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ʨ
Unicode (hex)U+02A8
X-SAMPAt_s\

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 ⟨t͡ɕ⟩, ⟨t͜ɕ⟩. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨⟩. There is also a ligature ⟨ʨ⟩, which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Occasionally the stop component is transcribed ⟨c⟩.[citation needed] An older transcription that indicated approximately the same sound was ⟨⟩.

t⟩ is a broad transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as ⟨t̠ʲ⟩ (retracted and palatalized [t]). There is also a para-IPA letter ⟨ȶ⟩. Therefore, narrow transcriptions include ⟨t̠ʲɕ⟩ and ⟨ȶɕ⟩. However, this is not normally done because the stop component is by default assumed to be homorganic with the fricative component of the consonant.

[tɕ] occurs in languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Serbo-Croatian or Russian, and is the sibilant equivalent of the voiceless palatal affricate. U+107AB 𐞫 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL is a superscript IPA letter.[1]

Features

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Features of a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate:

Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Bengali চিতল / citol [ˈtɕit̪ol] 'Chitala chitala' Contrasts aspirated form. See Bengali phonology
Burmese ကျ / ky [t͡ɕä̰ʔ] 'to fall' See Burmese phonology
Catalan[2] All dialects fletxa [ˈfɫe̞(t̚)t͡ɕə] 'arrow' See Catalan phonology
Valencian xec [ˈt͡ɕe̞k] 'cheque'
Chinese Cantonese / Yale: j / Jyutping: zyu¹ [t͡ɕyː˥] 'pig' Contrasts with aspirated form. Allophone of /t͡s/, usually in front of the front high vowels /iː/, /ɪ/, /yː/. See Cantonese phonology
Mandarin 北京 / Běijīng [peɪ̯˨˩.t͡ɕiŋ˥] 'Beijing' Contrasts with aspirated form. Pronounced by some speakers as a palatalized dental. In complementary distribution with [t͡s], [k], and [ʈ͡ʂ] series. See Standard Chinese phonology
Chuvash чипер / çiper [t͡ɕʲi̞ˈp̬ʲɛ̝r] 'cute'
Danish[3] tjener [ˈt͡ɕeːnɐ] 'servant' Normal realization of the sequence /tj/.[3] See Danish phonology
Dutch gaatjes [ˈɣaːt͡ɕəs] 'little holes'
Dzongkha ཆུ / chu [t͡ɕʰu˥] 'water'
Irish Some dialects[4][5][6] tír [t͡ɕiːɾʲ] 'country' Realization of the palatalized alveolar stop /tʲ/ in dialects such as Erris, Teelin and Tourmakeady.[4][5][6] See Irish phonology
Japanese 知人 / chijin [t͡ɕi(d)ʑĩ́ɴ] 'acquaintance' See Japanese phonology
Kalmyk чееҗ / cheej [t͡ɕeːd͡ʑə̟́] 'chest'
Karen S'gaw Karen ကၠိ [t͡ɕó] 'school'
Eastern Pwo ကျုင်း [t͡ɕə́ɯ̯̃ɴ] 'to be lazy'
Western Pwo ကၠုၧၪ့ [t͡ɕə̀] 'to be lazy'
Korean South 제비 / jebi [t͡ɕebi] 'swallow' See Korean phonology
Kyrgyz Kizilsu dialects чоң / chong [t͡ɕʰoŋ] 'big' Corresponds to postalveolar [] in standard Kyrgyz. See Kyrgyz phonology
Marathi चिंच / ciñca [t͡ɕint̪͡sə] 'tamarind' Contrasts with aspirated form. Allophone of [tʃ]. See Marathi phonology
Mongolian Khalkha жил / jil [t͡ɕiɬ] 'year' See Mongolian phonology
Okinawan 'ucinaaguci [ʔut͡ɕinaːɡut͡ɕi] 'Okinawan language' Merged with [ts].
Polish[7] ćma [t͡ɕmä] 'moth' See Polish phonology
Romanian Banat dialect[8] frate [ˈfrat͡ɕe] 'brother' Allophone of /t/ before front vowels. Corresponds to [t] in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology
Russian чуть / čutj [t͡ɕʉtʲ] 'barely' See Russian phonology
Sema[9] akichi [à̠kìt͡ɕì] 'mouth' Possible allophone of /t͡ʃ/ before /i, e/; can be realized as [t͡ʃ] instead.[9]
Serbo-Croatian[10] лећа / leća [lět͡ɕä] 'lentils' Merges into /t͡ʃ/ in dialects that do not distinguish /ʈ͡ʂ/ from /t͡ɕ/.
Slovene Dialects with tʼ–č distinction (such as Resian) teči [ˈt̪ɛ̀ːt͡ɕì] 'con artist' In Standard Slovene obsolete. See Slovene phonology
Sorbian Lower[11] šćit [ɕt͡ɕit̪] 'protection'
Swedish Finland kjol [t͡ɕuːl] 'skirt' See Swedish phonology
Thai[12] าน / cān [t͡ɕaːn] 'dish' Contrasts with aspirated form.
Tuvan чон / chon [t͡ɕʰɔ̝n] 'people'
Urarina[13] katsa [kat͡ɕá] 'man'
Uyghur چوڭ / chong / чоң [t͡ɕʰoŋ] 'big'
Uzbek[14] chumoli / чумоли [t͡ɕʊ̟mɒ̽ˈlɪ̞] 'ant' Often transcribed as /tʃ/. See Uzbek phonology
Vietnamese cha [t͡ɕa] 'father' See Vietnamese phonology
Xumi[15][16] [t͡ɕɐ˦] 'star'
Yi / ji [t͡ɕi˧] 'sour' Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Miller, Kirk; Ashby, Michael (2020-11-08). "L2/20-252R: Unicode request for IPA modifier-letters (a), pulmonic" (PDF).
  2. ^ Wheeler (2005:12)
  3. ^ a b Grønnum (2005:148)
  4. ^ a b Mhac an Fhailigh (1968:36–37)
  5. ^ a b Wagner (1959:9–10)
  6. ^ a b de Búrca (1958:24–25)
  7. ^ Jassem (2003:105)
  8. ^ Pop (1938), p. 29.
  9. ^ a b Teo (2014:24)
  10. ^ Landau et al. (1999), p. 67.
  11. ^ Zygis (2003), pp. 180–181.
  12. ^ Tingsabadh & Abramson (1993:24)
  13. ^ Olawsky (2006), p. 39.
  14. ^ Sjoberg (1963:12)
  15. ^ Chirkova & Chen (2013), p. 365.
  16. ^ Chirkova, Chen & Kocjančič Antolík (2013), p. 382.

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