Dental ejective affricate

The dental ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨t̪͡θʼ⟩.

Dental ejective affricate
t̪θʼ
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Encoding
X-SAMPA	t-\T_>

Features

Features of the dental ejective affricate:

• Its manner of articulation is affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
• Its place of articulation is dental, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the upper teeth, termed respectively apical and laminal. Note that most stops and liquids described as dental are actually denti-alveolar.
• Its phonation is un-voiced, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
• It is an oral consonant, which means that air is exclusively allowed to escape through the mouth.

• 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

Family	Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Athabaskan	Deg Xinag[1]		tth'ok[2]	[t̪͡θʼok]	'dish'
Salishan	Halkomelem		pé·ltʼθeʔ	[peːlt̪͡θʼeʔ]	"buzzard"

See also

• Index of phonetics articles