The velar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨kxʼ⟩. [kxʼ] is a common realization of a velar ejective often transcribed /kʼ/, and it is rare for a language to distinguish /kʼ/ and /kxʼ/, though several of the Nguni languages do so,[1] as well as the Northeast Caucasian language Karata-Tukita.
Velar ejective affricate | |
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kxʼ | |
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Features of the velar ejective affricate:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning |
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Hadza | dlaggwa | [cʎ̝̥ʼakxʷ’a] | 'to cradle' |
Haida | ttsanskkaagid | [tsʼanskxʼaːkit] | 'beams' |
Karata-Tukita | [example needed] | ||
Xhosa | krola | [kxʼola] | 'inscribe ' |