Draft:Voiceless alveolar median fricative
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Voiceless alveolar median fricative is a rarest consonantal sound. For template, see {{Voiceless alveolar median fricative}}.
| Voiceless alveolar median fricative | |
|---|---|
| θk | |
| kθ |
Features
- Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
- Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
- Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
References
List of languages with [θk] on PHOIBLE
