Dental ejective fricative

The dental ejective fricative is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨θʼ⟩.

Dental ejective fricative
θʼ
Audio sample
Encoding
X-SAMPAT_>

Features

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Features of the alveolar ejective fricative:

Occurrence

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[θʼ] occurs in Modern South Arabian languages and is also reconstructed for the hypothetical Proto-Semitic language.[1]

Language Word IPA Meaning
Mehri[citation needed] diśkhawt̠̣'ā [diɬχɑʊ̯θʼɑː] 'to hate'
Yapese[citation needed] th'abii [θʼabiː] 'most'

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude (1997). "The Modern South Arabian Languages". In Hetzron, Robert (ed.). The Semitic Languages. London: Routledge. pp. 381–382.
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