Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate
The voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are,, and, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are t_s\ and c_s\, though transcribing the stop component with is rare. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding or in the IPA and ts\ or cs\ in X-SAMPA.
Neither nor are a completely narrow transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as or . The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are t_-' or t_-_j and c_+, respectively. There is also a dedicated symbol, which is not a part of the IPA. Therefore, narrow transcriptions of the voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate include, and.
This affricate used to have a dedicated symbol, which was one of the six dedicated symbols for affricates in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It occurs in languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Albanian and Russian, and is the sibilant equivalent of voiceless palatal affricate.Features
Features of the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate:Occurrence
