Tɕ

Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate

Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate

Consonantal sound

The 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⟩, ⟨c͡ɕ⟩ and ⟨c͜ɕ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are t_s\ and c_s\, though transcribing the stop component with ⟨c⟩ (c in X-SAMPA) is rare. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨tɕ⟩ or ⟨cɕ⟩ in the IPA and ts\ or cs\ in X-SAMPA.

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Neither [t] nor [c] are a completely narrow transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as [t̠ʲ] (retracted and palatalized [t]) or [c̟] (advanced [c]). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are t_-' or t_-_j and c_+, respectively. There is also a dedicated symbol ⟨ȶ⟩, which is not a part of the IPA. Therefore, narrow transcriptions of the voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate include [t̠ʲɕ], [c̟ɕ] and [ȶɕ].

This affricate used to have a dedicated symbol U+02A8 ʨ LATIN SMALL LETTER TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL; ⟨ʨ⟩ was one of the six dedicated symbols for affricates in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It occurs in languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Serbo-Croatian or Russian, and is the sibilant equivalent of voiceless palatal affricate. U+107AB 𐞫 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL is a superscript IPA letter.[1]

Features

Features of the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate:

Occurrence

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See also

Notes

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

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