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alveolar ejective fricative

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{{Short description|Consonantal sound represented by ⟨sʼ⟩ in IPA}}

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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 {{angbr IPA|sʼ}}.

Features

Features of the alveolar ejective fricative:

{{sibilant}}

{{alveolar}}

{{voiceless short}}

{{oral}}

{{central articulation}}

{{ejective}}

In many languages, it is allophonic with the affricate [ts'].{{Cite journal |last1=Shosted |first1=Ryan K. |last2=Rose |first2=Sharon |date=2011 |title=Affricating ejective fricatives: The case of Tigrinya |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44526590 |journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=41–65 |doi=10.1017/S0025100310000319 |jstor=44526590 |s2cid=17186877 |issn=0025-1003}}

Occurrence

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! colspan="2"|Language !! Word !! IPA!! Meaning !! Notes

AdygheShapsug{{cn|date=March 2024}}{{lang|ady-Cyrl|сӏэ}}{{Audio|Сӏэ.ogg|[sʼa]}}'name'Corresponds to {{IPA|[tsʼ]}} in other dialects.
colspan="2" |Amharic

| colspan="3" |{{Example needed|date=April 2025}}

|More frequently realized as an allophone {{IPAblink|t͡sʼ}}

colspan="2" | Ganza{{Cite journal |last=Smolders |first=Joshua |date=2016 |title=A Phonology of Ganza |url=http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/document/1070 |format=pdf |journal=Linguistic Discovery |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=86–144 |doi=10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.470 |access-date=2017-01-16 |doi-access=free}}{{rp|101}}colspan="2" align="center" | {{IPA|[sʼásʼà]}}‘fat, thick’
colspan="2" | Hausa{{Cite book |last=Jaggar |first=Philip J. |url=https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027283047 |title=Hausa |date=2001-12-19 |publisher=John Benjamins |isbn=978-90-272-8304-7 |series=London Oriental and African Language Library |volume=7 |language=en |doi=10.1075/loall.7}}{{lang|ha|tsutsa}}{{IPA|[sʼusʼa]}}'worm'Allophone of {{IPA|/tsʼ/}} in some dialects
colspan="2" | Keres{{cn|date=March 2024}}s{{'}}eeka{{IPA|[sʼeːkʰa]}}'sure'

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colspan="2" | Lakota{{cn|date=March 2024}}{{lang|lkt|s{{'}}a}}{{IPA|[sʼa]}}'habitually'
colspan="2" | Tlingit{{Cite journal |last=Maddieson |first=Ian |last2=Smith |first2=Caroline L. |last3=Bessell |first3=Nicola |date=2001 |title=Aspects of the Phonetics of Tlingit |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30028779 |journal=Anthropological Linguistics |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=135–176 |issn=0003-5483 |jstor=30028779}}{{lang|tli|sʼeek}}{{Audio-IPA|Sʼeek.ogg|[sʼiːkʰ]}}'bear'
colspan="2" | Upper Necaxa Totonac{{Cite journal |last=Beck |first=David |date=2006-01-01 |title=The emergence of ejective fricatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac |url=https://www.academia.edu/17745106 |journal=University of Alberta Working Papers in Linguistics}}colspan="2" align="center" | {{IPA|[ˈsʼa̰ta̰]}}'small'
colspan="2" |Emberá-Catío{{Cite thesis |last=Mortensen |first=Charles Arthur |title=Nasalization in a revision of Embera-Katio phonology |date=1994 |degree=masters |publisher=MA thesis, University of Texas |url=https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/10027 |place=Arlington}}

| colspan="2" |/s'okʰo/ [s'okxo]

|'type of water jar'

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See also

References

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External links

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