Alveolar ejective fricative

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Alveolar ejective fricative

 

An alveolar ejective fricative is a sound used in some spoken languages. The IPA letter for this sound is ⟨s’⟩. It is not in English.

Characteristics

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Adyghe Shapsug[1] 'сӏ'э Loudspeaker.png [sʼa] (info • help) 'name' Corresponds to [tsʼ] in other dialects.
Amharic ፀጉር/cegur [sʼəgur] 'hair' More frequently realized as an affricate [t͡sʼ].
Ganza[2]: Script error: The function "hyphen2dash" does not exist.  [sʼásʼà] ‘fat, thick’
Hausa[3] 'ts'u'ts'a [sʼusʼa] 'worm' Allophone of /tsʼ/ in some dialects
Keres Acoma[4]: Script error: The function "hyphen2dash" does not exist.  's''eep'e [sʼeːpʼe] 'we bit it' Contrasts with other ejective sibilants /[[Error using {{IPAsym}}: IPA symbol "ʃʼ" not found in list|ʃʼ]]/ and /[[Error using {{IPAsym}}: IPA symbol "ʂʼ" not found in list|ʂʼ]]/.
Lakota 's''a [sʼa] 'habitually'
Tlingit[5] 'sʼ'eek [sʼiːk] 'bear'
Upper Necaxa Totonac[6] [ˈsʼa̰ta̰] 'small'
Emberá-Catío[7] [sʼokxo] 'type of water jar'

References

  1. Kerasheva, Z. I.. No Title (in ru) (1957). Maykop: Adyghe Book Publishing House.
  2. Smolders, Joshua. A Phonology of Ganza. Linguistic Discovery 14 (1) (2016). p. 86–144. doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.470. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  3. Jaggar, Philip J.. Hausa (in en). London Oriental and African Language Library 7 (2001-12-19)John Benjamins. ISBN 978-90-272-8304-7. doi:10.1075/loall.7.
  4. Miller, Wick R.. Acoma Grammar and Texts (1965)University of California Press.
  5. Maddieson, Ian. Aspects of the Phonetics of Tlingit. Anthropological Linguistics 43 (2) (2001). p. 135–176.
  6. Beck, David. The emergence of ejective fricatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac. University of Alberta Working Papers in Linguistics (2006-01-01).
  7. Mortensen, Charles Arthur (1994). Nasalization in a revision of Embera-Katio phonology. Arlington: MA thesis, University of Texas. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/10027. 

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