Voiceless palatal affricate
| Voiceless palatal affricate | |
|---|---|
| cç | |
| Audio sample | |
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | cC |
The voiceless palatal affricate is a consonant used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is in Albanian. The pairs of letters for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet are ⟨c͡ç⟩ and ⟨c͜ç⟩, and the its X-SAMPA symbol is c_C. The tie bar doesn't need to be used, so one can use ⟨cç⟩ in the IPA and cC in X-SAMPA.
The voiceless palatal affricate is in languages such as Hungarian and Skolt Sami. This consonant is very rare. It is very, very rare in Europe (though the Uralic languages and Albanian have it.)
Examples
[change | change source]| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | Standard[1] | qaj | [c͡çaj] | 'I cry' | |
| Asturian | Western dialects[2] | muyyer | [muˈc͡çeɾ] | 'woman' | |
| Kaingang[3] | [c͡çɔi̯ɟ] | 'cranefly' | |||
| Dutch[4] | bakje | [ˈbɑc̠͡ç̠jə] | 'tray' (dim.) | Post-palatal; allophone of /k/ before /j/.[4] See Dutch phonology | |
| Korean | 켜다 / kyeoda | [c͡çɘː.dɐ] | 'turn on' | Allophone of /kʰ/ before /i/ and /j/. See Korean phonology | |
| Makassarese | pacce | [ˈpʰac.c͡çe] | 'empathic pain' | Allophone of /c/. | |
| Navajo | ashkii | [aʃc͡çiː] | 'boy' | Allophone of /kʰ/ before the front vowels /i, e/. See Navajo phonology | |
| Norwegian | Central and Western dialects[5] | ikkje | [ic͡çə] | 'not' | See Norwegian phonology |
| Skolt Sami | sääˊmǩiõll | [ɕa̟ːmʰc͡çjɘhlː] | 'Skolt Sami' | ||
| Tamil | Tirunelveli Tamil | கசப்பு / kacappu | [kɐc͡çɐpːɯ] | 'bitterness' | |
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Palatal controversies Péter Siptár(2013)
- ↑ "Tinéu. Mapa del conceyu | El Teixu" (in Asturian). Retrieved 2019-11-24.
- ↑ Jolkesky (2009), pp. 676, 681.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Collins & Mees (2003), p. 193.
- ↑ Skjekkeland (1997), pp. 96–100.
