Voiceless postalveolar affricate
A voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant affricate or voiceless domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "ch" sound in "chip".
This sound is transcribed in the International [Phonetic Alphabet] with,,, or, in broad transcription,. There is also a ligature, which was retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. An alternative commonly used in Americanist [phonetic notation|Americanist tradition] is.
Historically, 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 a voiceless domed postalveolar affricate:Occurrence
Mandarin Chinese, 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.Related characters
There are several Unicode characters based on the tesh digraph :- is an IPA superscript letter
- is used in phonetic transcription
- has been used in phonetic descriptions of Polish
Voiceless postalveolar non-sibilant affricate
Features
- Its place of articulation is postalveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue behind the alveolar ridge.