IPA number 105 (136) Unicode (hex) U+0288 U+0361 U+0282 Kirshenbaum ts. | Entity (decimal) ʈ͡ʂ X-SAMPA ts` | |
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The voiceless retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʈ͡ʂ⟩, sometimes simplified to ⟨tʂ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ⟨ts`⟩.
The affricate occurs in a number of languages:
Some scholars transcribe the laminal variant of this sound as /t͡ʃ/, even though it is not palatalized. In such cases the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate is transcribed /t͡ʃʲ/.
Features
Features of the voiceless retroflex affricate:
References
Voiceless retroflex affricate Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA