ch’ [tʃ]

2 examples

North Slavey, Deline  -  Phoneme: ch’ [tʃ']  -  IPA: Post-alveolar ejective affricate. 

1 Word: ch’ádi [tʃ’ɑti] "disagree"  -  Speaker: SP6

An example of a post-alveolar ejective affricate in initial position in the word, showing the characteristic Dene ejective pattern.


2 Word: łech’á [ɬetʃ’á] "distance apart"  -  Speaker: SP8

An example of a post-alveolar ejective affricate in stem initial position between two vowels. The characteristic pattern is less obvious here and the sound is perceived as an aspirated affricate, instead of an ejective. Compare with the ch



 
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