Voiced epiglottal affricate explained

Above:	Voiced epiglottal affricate
Ipa Number:	173 174
Ipa Symbol:	ʡʢ

The voiced epiglottal affricate (pronounced as /[ʡ͜ʢ]/ in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as an epiglottal stop pronounced as /[ʡ]/ and released as a voiced epiglottal fricative pronounced as /[ʢ]/. It has not been reported to occur phonemically in any language.

Features

Features of the voiced epiglottal affricate:

Occurrence

Language		Word		Meaning	Notes
	Hydaburg dialect			May be a stop pronounced as /link/ or voiceless affricate pronounced as /link/ instead.
Somali		Somali: '''c'''ad	[ʡʢaʔ͡t]	'white'	Only pronounced as [ʡʢ] when 'c' occurs initially, otherwise realized as [ʡ]^[1]

References

• Book: Mithun , Marianne . 2001. The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge University Press. 052129875X.

pronounced as /navigation/

Notes and References

1. Edmondson . Jerold A. . Esling . John H. . Harris . Jimmy G. . Supraglottal cavity shape, linguistic register, and other phonetic features of Somali . 2020-11-21 . 2012-03-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120315001803/http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/somali.pdf . dead.