Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate
Consonantal sound
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A 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 ⟨t͡ɕ⟩, ⟨t͜ɕ⟩. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨tɕ⟩. There is also a ligature ⟨ʨ⟩, which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Occasionally the stop component is transcribed ⟨c⟩.[citation needed] An older transcription that indicated approximately the same sound was ⟨tʆ⟩.
| Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| tɕ | |||
| ʨ | |||
| cɕ | |||
| IPA number | 215 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ʨ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+02A8 | ||
| X-SAMPA | t_s\ | ||
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⟨t⟩ is a broad transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as ⟨t̠ʲ⟩ (retracted and palatalized [t]). There is also a para-IPA letter ⟨ȶ⟩. Therefore, narrow transcriptions include ⟨t̠ʲɕ⟩ and ⟨ȶɕ⟩. However, this is not normally done because the stop component is by default assumed to be homorganic with the fricative component of the consonant.
[tɕ] occurs in languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Serbo-Croatian or Russian, and is the sibilant equivalent of the voiceless palatal affricate. U+107AB 𐞫 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL is a superscript IPA letter.[1]
Features
Features of a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate:
- Its manner of articulation is sibilant affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the air flow entirely, then directing it with the tongue to the sharp edge of the teeth, causing high-frequency turbulence.
- Its place of articulation is alveolo-palatal. This means that:
- Its place of articulation is postalveolar, meaning that the tongue contacts the roof of the mouth in the area behind the alveolar ridge (the gum line).
- Its tongue shape is laminal, meaning that it is the tongue blade that contacts the roof of the mouth.
- It is heavily palatalized, meaning that the middle of the tongue is bowed and raised towards the hard palate.
- Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
- It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
- It is a median consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream down the midline of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bengali | চিতল / citol | [ˈtɕit̪ol] | 'Chitala chitala' | Contrasts aspirated form. See Bengali phonology | ||
| Burmese | ကျ / kyạ | [t͡ɕä̰ʔ] | 'to fall' | See Burmese phonology | ||
| Catalan[2] | All dialects | fletxa | [ˈfɫe̞(t̚)t͡ɕə] | 'arrow' | See Catalan phonology | |
| Valencian | xec | [ˈt͡ɕe̞k] | 'cheque' | |||
| Chinese | Cantonese | 豬 / Yale: jyū / Jyutping: zyu¹ | ⓘ | 'pig' | Contrasts with aspirated form. Allophone of /t͡s/, usually in front of the front high vowels /iː/, /ɪ/, /yː/. See Cantonese phonology | |
| Mandarin | 北京 / Běijīng | ⓘ | 'Beijing' | Contrasts with aspirated form. Pronounced by some speakers as a palatalized dental. In complementary distribution with [t͡s], [k], and [ʈ͡ʂ] series. See Standard Chinese phonology | ||
| Chuvash | чипер / çiper | [t͡ɕʲi̞ˈp̬ʲɛ̝r] | 'cute' | |||
| Danish[3] | tjener | [ˈt͡ɕeːnɐ] | 'servant' | Normal realization of the sequence /tj/.[3] See Danish phonology | ||
| Dutch | gaatjes | ⓘ | 'little holes' | |||
| Dzongkha | ཆུ / chu | [t͡ɕʰu˥] | 'water' | |||
| Irish | Some dialects[4][5][6] | tír | [t͡ɕiːɾʲ] | 'country' | Realization of the palatalized alveolar stop /tʲ/ in dialects such as Erris, Teelin and Tourmakeady.[4][5][6] See Irish phonology | |
| Japanese | 知人 / chijin | [t͡ɕi(d)ʑĩ́ɴ] | 'acquaintance' | See Japanese phonology | ||
| Kalmyk | чееҗ / cheej | [t͡ɕeːd͡ʑə̟́] | 'chest' | |||
| Karen | S'gaw Karen | ကၠိ | [t͡ɕó] | 'school' | ||
| Eastern Pwo | ကျုင်း | [t͡ɕə́ɯ̯̃ɴ] | 'to be lazy' | |||
| Western Pwo | ကၠုၧၪ့ | [t͡ɕə̀] | 'to be lazy' | |||
| Korean | South | 제비 / jebi | [t͡ɕebi] | 'swallow' | See Korean phonology | |
| Kyrgyz | Kizilsu dialects | чоң / chong | [t͡ɕʰoŋ] | 'big' | Corresponds to postalveolar [tʃ] in standard Kyrgyz. See Kyrgyz phonology | |
| Marathi | चिंच / ciñca | [t͡ɕint̪͡sə] | 'tamarind' | Contrasts with aspirated form. Allophone of [tʃ]. See Marathi phonology | ||
| Mongolian | Khalkha | жил / jil | [t͡ɕiɬ] | 'year' | See Mongolian phonology | |
| Okinawan | 'ucinaaguci | [ʔut͡ɕinaːɡut͡ɕi] | 'Okinawan language' | Merged with [ts]. | ||
| Polish[7] | ćma | ⓘ | 'moth' | See Polish phonology | ||
| Romanian | Banat dialect[8] | frate | [ˈfrat͡ɕe] | 'brother' | Allophone of /t/ before front vowels. Corresponds to [t] in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology | |
| Russian | чуть / čutj | [t͡ɕʉtʲ] | 'barely' | See Russian phonology | ||
| Sema[9] | akichi | [à̠kìt͡ɕì] | 'mouth' | Possible allophone of /t͡ʃ/ before /i, e/; can be realized as [t͡ʃ] instead.[9] | ||
| Serbo-Croatian[10] | лећа / leća | [lět͡ɕä] | 'lentils' | Merges into /t͡ʃ/ in dialects that do not distinguish /ʈ͡ʂ/ from /t͡ɕ/. | ||
| Slovene | Dialects with tʼ–č distinction (such as Resian) | teči | [ˈt̪ɛ̀ːt͡ɕì] | 'con artist' | In Standard Slovene obsolete. See Slovene phonology | |
| Sorbian | Lower[11] | šćit | [ɕt͡ɕit̪] | 'protection' | ||
| Swedish | Finland | kjol | [t͡ɕuːl] | 'skirt' | See Swedish phonology | |
| Thai[12] | จาน / cān | [t͡ɕaːn] | 'dish' | Contrasts with aspirated form. | ||
| Tuvan | чон / chon | [t͡ɕʰɔ̝n] | 'people' | |||
| Urarina[13] | katsa | [kat͡ɕá] | 'man' | |||
| Uyghur | چوڭ / chong / чоң | [t͡ɕʰoŋ] | 'big' | |||
| Uzbek[14] | chumoli / чумоли | [t͡ɕʊ̟mɒ̽ˈlɪ̞] | 'ant' | Often transcribed as /tʃ/. See Uzbek phonology | ||
| Vietnamese | cha | [t͡ɕa] | 'father' | See Vietnamese phonology | ||
| Xumi[15][16] | [t͡ɕɐ˦] | 'star' | ||||
| Yi | ꏢ / ji | [t͡ɕi˧] | 'sour' | Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms | ||