Voiceless palatal plosive

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IPA – number	107
IPA – text	c
IPA – image	Image:Xsampa-c.png
Entity	c
X-SAMPA	c
Kirshenbaum	c
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The voiceless palatal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is c, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is c.

Hungarian is one of the few languages with true palatal plosives. More commonly, the symbol /c/ is used to represent a voiceless postalveolar affricate, for example in the Indic languages. This may be considered appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified, but the distinction between stop and affricate is not contrastive, and therefore of secondary importance.

[edit] Features

Features of the voiceless palatal plosive:

• Its manner of articulation is plosive or stop, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. However, there is a tendency for this sound to become a voiceless postalveolar affricate.
• Its place of articulation is palatal which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the tongue raised against the hard palate.
• Its phonation type is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
• It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
• It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.
• The airstream mechanism is pulmonic egressive, which means it is articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

[edit] Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Albanian		kuq	[kuc]	'red'
Asu		[cúma]		'to sew'
Basque		ttantta	[canca]	'droplet'
Czech		čeština	[ˈʧɛʃ.cɪ.na]	'Czech language'	See Czech phonology
Dinka		car	[car]	'black'
Greek		κέδρος	[ˈce̞ðro̞s̠]	'cedar'	See Modern Greek phonology
Gweno		[ca]		'to come'
Hungarian		tyúk	[cuːk]	'hen'	See Hungarian phonology
Icelandic		gjóla	[couːla]	'light wind'
Latvian		ķirbis	[ˈcirbis]	'pumpkin'
Macedonian		вреќа	[ˈvrɛːca]	'sack'
Norwegian	northern dialects	fett	[fɛcː]	'fat'	See Norwegian phonology
Occitan	Limousin	tireta	[ciˈʀetɒ]	'drawer'
	Auvergnat	tirador	[ciʀaˈdu]	'drawer'
Plautdietsch		Kjoakj	[coac]	'church'
Scottish Gaelic		ceann	[cʰɛunˠ]	'head'
Slovak		deväť	[ˈɟɛvæc]	'nine'
Tadaksahak		[cɛːˈnɐ]		'small'
Turkish		köyün	[cœˈjyn]	'village' (gen.)	See Turkish phonology
Vietnamese		chờ	[cɤ ˧˩]	'wait'	See Vietnamese phonology
Western Desert Language		kutju	[kucu]	'one'

[edit] See also

• List of phonetics topics

Consonants (List, table)	See also: IPA, Vowels
Pulmonics Bilabial Lab'den. Dental Alveolar Postalv. Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyn. Epiglottal Glottal Non-pulmonics and other symbols Nasals m ɱ n̪ n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ Clicks  ʘ ǀ ǁ ǃ ǂ Plosives p b p̪ b̪ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Implo­­sives  ɓ ɗ ʄ ɠ ʛ Fricatives  ɸ β f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ʂ ʐ ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ ħ ʕ ʜ ʢ h ɦ Ejec­­tives  pʼ tʼ kʼ qʼ sʼ Approximants  ʋ ɹ ɻ j ɰ Other laterals  ɺ ɫ Trills ʙ r • ʀ • Co-articulated approximants  ʍ w ɥ Flaps & Taps • ѵ ɾ ɽ • Co-articulated fricatives  ɕ ʑ ɧ Lat. Fricatives ɬ ɮ • • • Affricates  t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ Lat. Appr'mants l ɭ ʎ ʟ Co-articulated stops  k͡p ɡ͡b ŋ͡m
This page contains phonetic information in IPA, which may not display correctly in some browsers. [Help] Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged impossible.

als:Stimmloser palataler Plosiv

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