Dental ejective fricative | |
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θʼ | |
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X-SAMPA | T_> |
The dental ejective fricative is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨θʼ⟩.
Features of the alveolar ejective fricative:
[θʼ] occurs in Modern South Arabian languages and is also reconstructed for the hypothetical Proto-Semitic language.[1]
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | |
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Mehri | diśkhawt̠̣'ā | [diɬχɑʊ̯θʼɑː] | 'to hate' | |
Yapese | th'abii | [θʼabiː] | 'most' |