Voiceless velar lateral affricate

A voiceless velar lateral affricate is a relatively uncommon speech sound found as a phoneme in the Caucasus and as an allophone in several languages of eastern and southern Africa. In traditional IPA, it needs to be transcribed with diacritics, but a proper letter exists in extIPA:.
In Hiw, a language spoken in Vanuatu, a lateral affricate occurs as an allophone of, a prestopped velar lateral.
Zulu and Xhosa have a voiceless lateral affricate as an allophone of their velar affricate. Hadza has an ejective velar lateral affricate as an allophone of its ejective affricate. Indeed, in Hadza this contrasts with a palatal lateral ejective affricate,. ǁXegwi is reported to have contrasted velar from alveolar.

Features

Features of a voiceless velar lateral affricate:

Pre-velar

Archi, a Northeast Caucasian language of Dagestan, has two such affricates, plain and labialized, though they are further forward than velars in most languages, and might better be called prevelar. Archi also has ejective variants of its lateral affricates, several voiceless lateral fricatives, and a voiced lateral fricative at the same place of articulation, but no alveolar lateral fricatives or affricates.