Voiceless palatal affricate | |
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cç | |
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Encoding | |
X-SAMPA | cC |
The voiceless palatal affricate is a consonant used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is in Albanian. The pairs of letters for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet are ⟨c͡ç⟩ and ⟨c͜ç⟩, and the its X-SAMPA symbol is c_C
. The tie bar doesn't need to be used, so one can use ⟨cç⟩ in the IPA and cC
in X-SAMPA.
The voiceless palatal affricate is in languages such as Hungarian and Skolt Sami. This consonant is very rare. It is very, very rare in Europe (though the Uralic languages and Albanian have it.)