Palatal ejective

Palatal ejective
IPA number 107 + 401
Encoding
Entity (decimal) cʼ
Unicode (hex) U+0063U+02BC
X-SAMPA c_>
Kirshenbaum c`
Sound
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The palatal 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 palatal ejective:

Occurrence

This sound is largely confined to the indigenous languages of the Americas. It sometimes contrasts with a tʃʼ, but does not always do so. It occurs in:

See also

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