Voiceless retroflex affricate | |||
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ʈʂ | |||
IPA Number | 105 (136) | ||
Audio sample | |||
Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ʈ͡ʂ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0288 U+0361 U+0282 | ||
X-SAMPA | ts` | ||
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The voiceless retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨t̠͡ʂ⟩, sometimes simplified to ⟨tʂ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ts`
. Its apical variant is ⟨ʈ̺͡ʂ̺⟩ and laminal variant ⟨ʈ̻͡ʂ̻⟩.
The affricate occurs in a number of languages:
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