Voiceless uvular affricate

A voiceless uvular affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are and. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding.

Features

Features of a voiceless uvular affricate:

Occurrence

Uvular

Pre-uvular

There is also a voiceless pre-uvular affricate in some languages, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical voiceless uvular affricate, though not as front as the prototypical voiceless velar affricate. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for that sound, though it can be transcribed as or or .

Occurrence