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Type of consonantal sound
Labiodental ejective affricate
p̪fʼ


A labiodental ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is p̪fʼ.

Features

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Features of a labiodental ejective affricate:

  • Its manner of articulation is affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
  • Its place of articulation is labiodental, which means it is articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
  • Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
  • It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
  • Because the sound is not produced with airflow over the tongue, the medianlateral dichotomy does not apply.
  • The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.

Occurrence

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LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Afade[1][2] [example needed]
Tsetsaut[3][4] apfʼo [ap̪͡fʼo] "boil"
Venda[5] [example needed]

See also

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References

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  1. "PHOIBLE 2.0 -". phoible.org.
  2. "UPSID KOTOKO". web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de.
  3. Boas, Franz, and Pliny Earle Goddard (1924) "Ts'ets'aut, an Athapascan Language from Portland Canal, British Columbia." International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1–35.
  4. Tharp, George W. (1972). "The Position of the Tsetsaut among Northern Athapaskans". International Journal of American Linguistics. 38 (1): 14–25. doi:10.1086/465179. JSTOR 1264498. S2CID 145318136.
  5. Poulos, G. (1990). A Linguistic Analysis of Venda. Via Afrika. ISBN 978-0-7994-1171-3.
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