Voiceless retroflex affricate
| Voiceless retroflex affricate | |||
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| ʈ͡ʂ | |||
| t͡ʂ | |||
| IPA number | 105 (136) | ||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ʈ͡ʂ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+0288 U+0361 U+0282 | ||
| X-SAMPA | ts` |
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| Kirshenbaum | ts. |
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The voiceless retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʈ͡ʂ⟩, sometimes simplified to ⟨tʂ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ⟨ts`⟩.
The affricate occurs in a number of languages:
Some scholars transcribe the laminal variant of this sound as /t͡ʃ/, even though it is not palatalized. In such cases the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate is transcribed /t͡ʃʲ/.
Features of the voiceless retroflex affricate:
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