Voiceless glottal affricate explained

Above:Voiceless glottal affricate
Ipa Symbol:ʔh
Ipa Number:113 146
X-Sampa:?_h
Decimal1:660
Decimal2:104

The voiceless glottal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are (IPA|ʔ͡h) and (IPA|ʔ͜h), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ?_h. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding (IPA|ʔh) in the IPA and ?h in X-SAMPA.

Features

Features of the voiceless glottal affricate:

Occurrence

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
ChineseYuxi dialect[[Chinese characters|可]]pronounced as /[ʔ͡ho˥˧]/'can, may'Corresponds to pronounced as //kʰ// in Standard Chinese.
EnglishReceived Pronunciationhatpronounced as /[ʔ͡haʔt]/'hat'Possible allophone of pronounced as //h//, especially in stressed syllables. See English phonology
TinputzAllophone of /ʔ/[1]
TzeltalAllophone of /ʔ/[2]

References

pronounced as /navigation/

Notes and References

  1. Hostetler, Roman and Hostetler, Carolyn. 1975. A Tentative Description of Tinputz Phonology. In Loving, Richard (ed.), Workers in Papua New Guinea Languages: Phonologies of Five Austronesian Languages. Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. Kaufman, Terrence. 1971. Tzeltal Phonology and Morphology. Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press.