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Velar ejective stop

A velar ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨kʼ⟩.

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Velar ejective stop
IPA number109 + 401
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)k​ʼ
Unicode (hex)U+006B U+02BC
X-SAMPAk_>

A velar ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨⟩.

Features

Features of a velar ejective:

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Abkhaz акы/aky [akʼə] 'one'
Adyghe Temirgoy шкӏэ/س̈ڃە/šč̣ʼǎ [ʃkʼa] 'calf'
Shapsug1 кӏьэ / ڃیە / č̣ [kʲʼa] 'tail' Palatalized. Corresponds to [t͡ʃʼ] in other dialects.2
Amharic ቀን/ḳän [kʼɜn] 'day'
Archi3 кIан/k'an [kʼan] 'bottom'
Armenian Yerevan dialect4 կեղծ/kekhts [kʼɛʁt͡sʼ] 'false' Some speakers. Corresponds to tenuis [k⁼] in most speakers and other Eastern dialects.
Tbilisi dialect կարմիր/karmir [kʼɑɹmiɹ] 'red'
Avar кӀул / گۇل / ul [kʼuɫ] 'key'
Chechen кӀант/khant/انت [kʼənt] 'boy'
Damin k'uu [kʼuː] 'eye'
English56 Non-local Dublin7 back [bækʼ] 'back' Allophone of /k/ for some speakers.7
Northern English8910 Pre-pausal allophone of /k/ for some speakers;9 may be somewhat palatalised. See English phonology
Southern English789
Scottish11 Occasional word-final allophone of /k/.11
Georgian აბა/aba [kʼɑbɑ] 'dress'
Haida ttsanskkaagid [tsʼanskʼaːkit] 'beams'
Hausa ƙoƙari / ࢼُوْࢼَرِی [kʼòːkʼɐ̄ɾī] 'effort'
Kabardian Besleney кӏьапсэ / السە / ćapse [kʲʼaːpsa] 'rope' Palatalized. Corresponds to [t͡ʃʼ] in other dialects.2
Kʼicheʼ k'ak' [kʼaːkʼ] 'new'
Lak кӀлла/alla/الّا [kʼalːa] 'rootless, foreign'12
Lezgian кIир/k'ir [kʼir] 'fang'
Mpade13 tawa [takʼʷa] 'to vomit'
Navajo k'os [kʼòs] 'cloud'
Ossetian Iron къона/khona [ˈkʼonä] 'hearth'
Digoron дзæкъолæ/dzækholæ [d͡zəˈkʼoɫə] 'bag'
Quechua k'aspi [kʼaspi] 'stick'
Saanich1415 QEJTEN [kʷʼətʃʼtən] 'salmon knife'16 Labialized
Sotho
See also

See also

Notes

Notes

  1. Kerasheva, Z. I. (1957). Особенности шапсугского диалекта адыгейского языка [Features of the Shapsug Dialect of the Adyghe Language] (in Russian). Maykop: Adyghe Book Publishing House.
  2. Консонантная система уляпского говора в сопоставлении с аналогами других диалектов адыгских языков (in Russian)
  3. "The Archi Language Tutorial" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  4. Dum-Tragut (2009:17–18)
  5. Wells & Colson (1971:3)
  6. "Ejectives in English | Linguism | Linguistics, Pronunciation and Phonetics". 21 August 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  7. "Glossary". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  8. Cruttenden (2008:167)
  9. Wells (1982:261)
  10. Gimson (1970:34)
  11. McCarthy & Stuart-Smith (2013) harvcoltxt error: no target: CITEREFMcCarthyStuart-Smith2013 (help)
  12. лакско-русский словарь Link
  13. Allison (2006).
  14. Leonard, Janet (2009), "Preliminary Investigation of the Relationship between Morphology and Phonology in SENĆOŦEN (Saanich)", Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle, 19 (1): 141–152, ISSN 1920-440X
  15. Bird, Sonya; Leonard, Janet (2009), "Universality of Articulatory Conflict Resolution: Evidence from Salish Languages" (PDF), Northwest Journal of Linguistics, 3 (2): 1–29
  16. Montler, Timothy (2018). SENĆOŦEN: A Dictionary of the Saanich Language. p. 413. ISBN 0295743859.
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