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Alveolar lateral ejective affricate
tɬʼ
IPA Number103 (148) 401
Alsoƛ’
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)t​͡​ɬ​ʼ
Unicode (hex)U+0074 U+0361 U+026C U+02BC

The alveolar lateral 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 ⟨t͡ɬʼ⟩ (or ⟨tɬʼ⟩), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is ⟨ƛʼ⟩ (lambda bar).

Features

Features of the alveolar lateral ejective affricate:

Occurrence

Family Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Northeast Caucasian Avar кьалаб [t͡ɬʼalab] 'hostile'
Isolate Haida sttluujagadang [st͡ɬʼuːt͡ʃakataŋ] 'Sapsucker'
Cushitic Iraqw[1] hatlʼáʼ [hat͡ɬʼáʔ] 'other'
Northwest Caucasian Kabardian Baslaney лӏы [t͡ɬʼə] 'man' Corresponds to [ɬʼ] in other dialects.
Salishan Klallam ƛ̕əm̕éʔqʷnəxʷ [t͡ɬʼ(ə)ˈmˀeʔqʷn(ə)xʷ] 'to accidentally bump one's head'
Salishan Lillooet st'át'imcets [ˈst͡ɬʼæt͡ɬʼjəmxət͡ʃ] 'Lilooet language'
Athabaskan Navajo tłʼóoʼdi [t͡ɬʼóːʔtɪ̀] '(at) the outside'
Plateau-Penutian Sahaptin ƛ’ɨƛ’k [mɨˈt͡ɬʼɨt͡ɬʼk] 'mud'
Salishan Sechelt ch'álhch'ílh [tʃʼat͡ɬ.tʃʼet͡ɬ] 'robin'
Na-Dene Tlingit tlʼeex [t͡ɬʼix] 'garbage'
Salishan Lushootseed sq̓aƛ̕ [sqʼɑt͡ɬʼ] 'otter'
Northeast Caucasian Tsez кьиш [t͡ɬʼɪʃ] 'splinter'

Proto-Semitic *ṣ́ is believed to have been an alveolar lateral ejective affricate.

See also

References

  1. ^ Mous, Maarten (1993). A grammar of Iraqw. Kuschitische Sprachstudien. Vol. 9. Hamburg: Buske.