Dental and alveolar ejectives

Alveolar ejective
IPA number 165
Encoding
Entity (decimal) tť
Unicode (hex) U+0074U+0165
X-SAMPA t_>
Kirshenbaum t`
Sound
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The alveolar ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .

Features

Features of the alveolar ejective:

Occurrence

Dental or denti-alveolar

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Dahalo[1] [t̪ʼat̪t̪a] 'hair' Laminal denti-alveolar, contrasts with alveolar ejective.[2]

Alveolar

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Adyghe ятӀэ  [jaːtʼa]  'dirt'
Amharic ጥጃ [tʼəd͡ʒa] 'calf'
Armenian Yerevan dialect[3] տիկ [tʼikʼ] 'wineskin' Corresponds to tenuis [t⁼] in other Eastern dialects.
Dahalo[1] [t̺ʼirimalle] 'spider' Apical, contrasts with laminal denti-alveolar ejective.[2]
Georgian ტიტა [tʼitʼa] 'tulip'
Haida qqayttas [qʼajtʼas] 'basket'
Kabardian тӀы  [tʼə]  'ram'
Kawésqar t'ǽrkse [tʼǽɾkse] 'spicy'
Khwarshi ? [tʼaja] 'to drop'
Nez Perce tʼeyíitʼeyii [tʼæˈjiːtʼæjiː] 'flat'

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