Voiceless postalveolar affricate
The voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant affricate or voiceless domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with, or . The alternative commonly used in American tradition is. It is familiar to English speakers as the "ch" sound in "chip".
Historically, this sound often derives from a former voiceless velar stop , or a voiceless dental stop by way of palatalization, especially next to a front vowel.Features
Features of the voiceless domed postalveolar affricate:Occurrence
, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Polish, Catalan, and Thai have a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate ; this is technically postalveolar but it is less precise to use.Voiceless postalveolar non-sibilant affricate
Features
