Voiceless Alveolo-palatal Affricate

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Voiceless Alveolo-palatal Affricate

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Features of the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate:

Its Manner Of Articulation is Sibilant Affricate , which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then directing it through a groove in the tongue and over the sharp edge of the teeth, causing high-frequency Turbulence .

Its Place Of Articulation is Alveolo-palatal , that is, Palatalized Laminal Postalveolar , which means it is articulated with the blade of the Tongue behind the Alveolar Ridge , and the body of the tongue raised toward the 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 Lung s and through the vocal tract, rather than from the Glottis or the mouth.

FOUND IN

In Serbian , Croatian and Bosnian ( Serbo-Croatian ), this sound is represented with Latin letter Ć/ć or Cyrillic letter Ћ/ћ . ''-ić'' is a Diminutive suffix and the most frequent suffix of surnames, meaning roughly "son of".

In Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian this sound is represented with letter Ć/ć.

In Polish this sound is represented in two ways: before a consonant and at the end of a word with letter Ć/ć and before a vowel with two letters combination Ci/ci.