Voiceless palatal implosive


A voiceless palatal implosive is a rare consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is or. A dedicated IPA letter,, was withdrawn in 1993.

Features

Features of the voiceless palatal implosive:

Occurrence

A rare and evidently unstable sound, is attested from the Serer language of Senegal, and the dedicated letter is given for the language's Arabic script orthography.