Back Stimmlose postalveolare Affrikate ALS Africada postalveolar xorda AN لثوي غاري مزجي مهموس Arabic Africada postalveolar sorda AST Kensonenn drekkevig dre fic'hal divouezh Breton Africada postalveolar sorda Catalan Neznělá postalveolární afrikáta Czech Stimmlose postalveolare Affrikate German Africada postalveolar sorda Spanish Consonne affriquée palato-alvéolaire sourde French
| Voiceless postalveolar affricate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| tʃ | |||
| t̠ʃ | |||
| IPA Number | 103 134 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | t͡ʃ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0074 U+0361 U+0283 | ||
| X-SAMPA | tS or t_rS | ||
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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⟩. The alternative commonly used in American tradition is ⟨č⟩. It is familiar to English speakers as the "ch" sound in "chip".
Historically, this sound often derives from a former voiceless velar stop /k/ (as in English church; also in Gulf Arabic, Slavic languages, Indo-Iranian languages and Romance languages), or a voiceless dental stop /t/ by way of palatalization, especially next to a front vowel (as in English nature; also in Amharic, Portuguese, some accents of Egyptian, etc.).
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