Palatal lateral ejective affricate


A palatal lateral ejective affricate is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
It is a rare sound, found in Dahalo, a Cushitic language of Kenya, and in Hadza, a language isolate of Tanzania. In Dahalo, contrasts with alveolar, and in Hadza it contrasts with velar [Velar lateral ejective affricate|], an allophone of.

Features

Features of a palatal lateral ejective affricate:

Occurrence

The Hadza sound has been transcribed as, but alveolar contact of the tongue is variable and not distinctive.