Velar ejective affricate explained

Above:	Velar ejective affricate
Ipa Symbol:	kxʼ

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 (IPA|kxʼ).pronounced as /[kxʼ]/ is a common realization of a velar ejective often transcribed pronounced as //kʼ//, and it is rare for a language to distinguish pronounced as //kʼ// and pronounced as //kxʼ//, though several of the Nguni languages do so,^[1] as well as the Northeast Caucasian language Karata-Tukita.

Features

Features of the velar ejective affricate:

Occurrence

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning
	dlaggwa	pronounced as /[cʎ̝̥ʼakxʷ’a]/	'to cradle'
	ttsanskkaagid	pronounced as /[tsʼanskxʼaːkit]/	'beams'
Karata-Tukita
	krola	pronounced as /[kxʼola]/	'inscribe '

See also

• List of phonetic topics
• kʼ

External links

pronounced as /navigation/

Notes and References

1. The ejective articulation of the Nguni consonants is however quite light.