voiceless glottal affricate

{{Short description|Consonantal sound}}

{{infobox IPA

|above=Voiceless glottal affricate

|ipa symbol=ʔh

|ipa number=113 146

|x-sampa=?_h

|decimal1=660|decimal2=104}}

The voiceless glottal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are {{angbr IPA|ʔ͡h}} and {{angbr IPA|ʔ͜h}}, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ?_h. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding {{angbr IPA|ʔh}} in the IPA and ?h in X-SAMPA.

Features

Features of the voiceless glottal affricate:

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{{glottal}}

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{{oral}}

{{central articulation}}

{{pulmonic}}

Occurrence

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!colspan=2| Language

! Word

! IPA

! Meaning

! Notes

Chinese

| Yuxi dialect{{sfnp|Yang|1969|pp=393–394}}{{sfnp|Colarusso|2012|p=2}}

| {{lang|cmn-Hani|}}

| {{IPA|[ʔ͡ho˥˧]}}

| 'can, may'

| Corresponds to {{IPA|/kʰ/}} in Standard Chinese.{{sfnp|Colarusso|2012|p=2}}{{sfnp|Yang|1969|p=394}}

English

| Received Pronunciation{{sfnp|Collins|Mees|2003|p=148}}

| hat

| {{IPA|[ʔ͡haʔt]}}

| 'hat'

| Possible allophone of {{IPA|/h/}}, especially in stressed syllables.{{sfnp|Collins|Mees|2003|p=148}} See English phonology

colspan=2 |Tinputz{{example needed|date=November 2023}}

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| Allophone of /ʔ/Hostetler, Roman and Hostetler, Carolyn. 1975. A Tentative Description of Tinputz Phonology. In Loving, Richard (ed.), Workers in Papua New Guinea Languages: Phonologies of Five Austronesian Languages. Summer Institute of Linguistics.

colspan=2 |Tzeltal{{example needed|date=November 2023}}

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| Allophone of /ʔ/Kaufman, Terrence. 1971. Tzeltal Phonology and Morphology. Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Notes

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References

{{refbegin}}

  • {{citation

|last=Colarusso

|first=John

|author-link = John Colarusso

|year=2012

|title=The Typology of the Gutturals

|url=http://www.johncolarusso.net/pdf/Back-final.pdf

}}

  • {{citation

|last1=Collins

|first1=Beverley

|last2=Mees

|first2=Inger M.

|year=2003

|orig-year=First published 1981

|title=The Phonetics of English and Dutch

|edition=5th

|place=Leiden

|publisher=Brill Publishers

|isbn=9004103406

}}

  • {{citation

|last=Yang

|first=Shifeng

|year=1969

|title=A Report of Investigating Dialects in Yunnan Province [雲南方言調查報告]

}}

{{refend}}

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Category:Affricates

Category:Glottal consonants

Category:Pulmonic consonants

Category:Voiceless oral consonants

Category:Central consonants