Alveolar ejective fricative explained

The alveolar ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA|sʼ).

Features

Features of the alveolar ejective fricative:In many languages, it is allophonic with the affricate [ts'].^[1]

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
	Adyghe; Adygei: [[Cyrillic script\|'''сӏ'''э]]		'name'	Corresponds to pronounced as /[tsʼ]/ in other dialects.
Ganza^[2]	pronounced as /[sʼásʼà]/		‘fat, thick’
Hausa^[3]	Hausa: '''ts'''u'''ts'''a	pronounced as /[sʼusʼa]/	'worm'	Allophone of pronounced as //tsʼ// in some dialects
	seeka	pronounced as /[sʼeːkʰa]/	'sure'
	'''s{{'	pronounced as /[sʼa]/	'habitually'
Tlingit^[4]	Tlingit: [[Tlingit alphabet\|'''sʼ'''eek]]		'bear'
Upper Necaxa Totonac^[5]	pronounced as /[ˈsʼa̰ta̰]/		'small'
Emberá-Catío^[6]	/s'okʰo/ [s'okxo]		'type of water jar'

pronounced as /navigation/

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