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  2. Aspirated consonant - Wikipedia

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    In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most South Asian languages and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.

  3. Voiceless postalveolar affricate - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant affricate or voiceless domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with t͡ʃ , t͜ʃ tʃ (formerly the ligature ʧ ), or, in broad transcription, c .

  4. Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are t͡ɕ , t͜ɕ , c͡ɕ and c͜ɕ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are t_s\ and c_s\, though transcribing the stop component with c (c in X-SAMPA) is rare.

  5. Voiceless glottal fricative - Wikipedia

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    All consonants except for the glottals, and all vowels, have an individual place of articulation in addition to the state of the glottis. As with all other consonants, surrounding vowels influence the pronunciation [h], and [h] has sometimes been presented as a voiceless vowel, having the place of articulation of these surrounding vowels.

  6. Voiceless alveolar affricate - Wikipedia

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    Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated versions. The unaspirated is represented by /च/. The aspirated sound is represented by /छ/. See Nepali phonology: Portuguese: European [45] parte sem vida [ˈpaɾt͡sẽj ˈviðɐ] 'lifeless part' Allophone of /t/ before /i, ĩ/, or assimilation due to the deletion of /i ~ ɨ ~ e/. Increasingly used in ...

  7. Voiced alveolar affricate - Wikipedia

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    The aspirated sound is represented by झ, which also represents [d͡ʒʱ]. There is no marked difference for either one. Ollari: jōnel [d͡zoːnel] 'maize' Nepali: आज /ādza [äd͡zʌ] 'today' Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated versions. The unaspirated is represented by /ज/. The aspirated sound is represented by /झ/. See Nepali ...

  8. Voiceless retroflex affricate - Wikipedia

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    Contrasts with aspirated form. See Mandarin phonology: Khanty: Eastern dialects: ҷӓңҷ [t̠͡ʂaɳt̠͡ʂ] 'knee' Corresponds to a voiceless retroflex fricative /ʂ/ in the northern dialects. Southern dialects Mapudungun: trafoy [t̠͡ʂa.ˈfoj] 'it got broken' Contrasts with a voiceless postalveolar affricate: chafoy [t͡ʃa.ˈfoj] 'he/she ...

  9. Voiceless alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    As the International Phonetic Alphabet does not have separate symbols for the alveolar consonants (the same symbol is used for all coronal places of articulation that are not palatalized), this sound is usually transcribed θ̠ , occasionally θ͇ (retracted or alveolarized [θ], respectively), ɹ̝̊ (constricted voiceless [ɹ]), or t̞ ...