Frequent Links
MultivitaminsPublic-health-InnovationsSports Medicine Open Access JournalsMycobacteriology Open Access JournalsOxytocinVascular lesionsDental cavitiesalcoholism futureperinatal mortality JournalsAromatherapy uses Scholarly journalBest -accounting -top -Open -Access-JournalsMolecular BiologyArchaeologyAlgal Technologyfisheries journals publications
Velar ejective affricate
| Velar ejective affricate | |
|---|---|
| k͡xʼ | |
| k͜xʼ | |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) |
Template:Infobox IPA/format numbers |
| Unicode (hex) | Template:Infobox IPA/format numbers |
| Template:Infobox IPA/format numbers | |
The velar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨kxʼ⟩.
Features
Features of the velar 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 velar, which means it is articulated with the back of the tongue at the soft palate.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- 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
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xhosa | krola | [kxʼola] | inscribe |
| Hadza | dlaggwa | [cʎ̝̥ʼakxʷ’a] | to cradle |
| Haida | ttsanskkaagid | [tsʼanskʼaːkit] | beams |
