Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
| Voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant | |||
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| ɕ | |||
| IPA number | 182 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ɕ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+0255 | ||
| X-SAMPA | s\ |
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| Kirshenbaum | S; |
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The voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some oral languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɕ⟩ ("c", plus the curl also found in its voiced counterpart ⟨ʑ⟩). It is the sibilant equivalent of the voiceless palatal fricative.
The voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative does not occur in any major dialect of English. However, it is the usual realization of /ʃ/ (as in ship) in the Ghanaian variety.
Features of the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative:
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