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Velar ejective stop

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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_>

The 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

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Features of the velar ejective:

Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Abkhaz акы/aky [akʼə] 'one'
Adyghe Temirgoy шкӏэ/šč̣ǎ [ʃkʼa] 'calf'
Shapsug кӏьэ/č̣ [kʲʼa] 'tail' Palatalized. Corresponds to [t͡ʃʼ] in other dialects.
Archi[1] кIан/k'an [kʼan] 'bottom'
Armenian Yerevan dialect[2] 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/ul [kʼuɫ] 'key'
Chechen кӀант/khant/آنت [kʼənt] 'boy'
English[3][4] Non-local Dublin[5] back [bækʼ] 'back' Allophone of /k/ for some speakers.[5]
Northern English[6][7][8] Pre-pausal allophone of /k/ for some speakers;[7] may be somewhat palatalised. See English phonology
Southern English[5][6][7]
Scottish[9] Occasional word-final allophone of /k/.[9]
Georgian აბა/aba [kʼɑbɑ] 'dress'
Haida ttsanskkaagid [tsʼanskʼaːkit] 'beams'
Hausa ƙoƙari [kʼòːkʼɐ̄ɾī] 'effort'
Kabardian Baslaney кӏьапсэ/kl'apsè [kʲʼaːpsa] 'rope' Palatalized. Corresponds to [t͡ʃʼ] in other dialects.
Kʼicheʼ k'ak' [kʼaːkʼ] 'new'
Lak кӀлла/alla/الّا [kʼalːa] 'rootless, foreign'[10]
Lezgian кIир/k'ir [kʼir] 'fang'
Navajo k'os [kʼòs] 'cloud'
Ossetian Iron къона/khona [ˈkʼonä] 'hearth'
Digoron дзæкъолæ/dzækholæ [d͡zəˈkʼoɫə] 'bag'
Quechua k'aspi [kʼaspi] 'stick'
Sotho [example needed]
Yeyi [example needed] Contrasts /kʼ kʲʼ ᵑkʼ/.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "The Archi Language Tutorial" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  2. ^ Dum-Tragut (2009:17–18)
  3. ^ Wells & Colson (1971:3)
  4. ^ "Ejectives in English | Linguism | Linguistics, Pronunciation and Phonetics". 21 August 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  5. ^ a b c "Glossary". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  6. ^ a b Cruttenden (2008:167)
  7. ^ a b c Wells (1982:261)
  8. ^ Gimson (1970:34)
  9. ^ a b McCarthy & Stuart-Smith (2013)
  10. ^ лакско-русский словарь Link

References

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  • Cruttenden, Alan, ed. (2008), Gimson's Pronunciation of English (7th ed.), London: Hodder, ISBN 978-0340958773
  • Dum-Tragut, Jasmine (2009), Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Gimson, Alfred C. (1970), An Introduction to the pronunciation of English, London: Edward Arnold
  • Wells, John C.; Colson, Greta (1971), Practical Phonetics, London: Pitman, ISBN 0-273-43949-9
  • Wells, John C. (1982), Accents of English I: An Introduction, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-29719-2
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