Dental ejective fricative explained

Ipa Symbol:	θʼ
X-Sampa:	T_>

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

Features

Features of the alveolar ejective fricative:

Occurrence

pronounced as /[θʼ]/ occurs in Modern South Arabian languages and is also reconstructed for the hypothetical Proto-Semitic language.^[1]

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning
		diśkhaw'''t̠̣{{'	pronounced as /[diɬχɑʊ̯θʼɑː]/	'to hate'
		Yapese: '''th{{'	pronounced as /[θʼabiː]/	'most'

See also

• Index of phonetics articles

External links

pronounced as /navigation/

Notes and References

1. Book: Simeone-Senelle , Marie-Claude . The Modern South Arabian Languages . 1997 . The Semitic Languages . Hetzron . Robert . 381–382 . London . Routledge.