Alveolar ejective fricative

Alveolar ejective fricative
IPA number 132 401
Encoding
Entity (decimal) sʼ
Unicode (hex) U+0073U+02BC
X-SAMPA s_>
Kirshenbaum s`
Sound
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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 .

Features

Features of the alveolar ejective fricative:

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Adyghe Shapsug сӏэ  [sʼa]  'name' Corresponds to [tsʼ] in other dialects.
Hausa Allophone of /tsʼ/ in some dialects
Lakota
Tlingit eek  [sʼiːk]  'bear'
Upper Necaxa Totonac [ˈsʼa̰ta̰] 'small'

See also

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