Velar ejective affricate
Consonantal sound
title: "Velar ejective affricate" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["affricates", "velar-consonants", "ejectives", "oral-consonants", "median-consonants"] description: "Consonantal sound" topic_path: "general/affricates" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velar_ejective_affricate" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Consonantal sound ::
::data[format=table title="infobox IPA"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| above | Velar ejective affricate |
| ipa symbol | kxʼ |
| :: |
|above = Velar ejective affricate |ipa symbol = kxʼ
A 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 . is a common realization of a velar ejective often transcribed , and it is rare for a language to distinguish and , though several of the Nguni languages do so, as well as the Northeast Caucasian language Karata-Tukita.
Features
Features of a velar ejective affricate:
Occurrence
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| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hadza | dlaggwa | 'to cradle' | |
| Haida | ttsanskkaagid | 'beams' | |
| Karata-Tukita | |||
| Xhosa | krola | 'inscribe ' | |
| :: |
Notes
References
- The ejective articulation of the Nguni consonants is however quite light.
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