A velar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . is a common realization of a velar ejective often transcribed , and it is rare for a language to distinguish and , though several of the Nguni languages do so,The ejective articulation of the Nguni consonants is however quite light. as well as the Northeast Caucasian language Karata-Tukita.

Features Features of a velar ejective affricate:

Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning Hadza dlaggwa 'to cradle' Haida ttsanskkaagid 'beams' Karata-Tukita Xhosa krola 'inscribe '

See also Index of phonetics articles k𝼄ʼ

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