Palato-alveolar ejective fricative explained

The palato-alveolar ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA|ʃʼ).

Features

Features of the palato-alveolar ejective fricative:

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning
		Adyghe; Adygei: [[Cyrillic script|п'''шӏ'''ы]]		'ten'
Gullah[1]		Azerbaijani: shew	pronounced as /[ʃʼɛw]/	'shave'

See also

• Index of phonetics articles

External links

pronounced as /navigation/

Notes and References

1. Turner, L. D. (1969). Africanisms in the Gullah dialect. New York, NY: Arno Press. p. 240-241.