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{{use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Short description|Consonantal sound represented by ⟨sʼ⟩ in IPA}}
{{More citations needed|date=November 2017}}
{{Infobox IPA
 |ipa number=132 401
 |ipa symbol=sʼ
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{{infobox IPA
| above = Retracted alveolar ejective fricative
| ipa symbol    = s̠ʼ
| ipa symbol2    = sᶴʼ
| soundfile = Voiceless alveolar retracted ejective sibilant.ogg
}}

An '''alveolar ejective fricative''' is a type of [[consonant]]al sound, used in some spoken [[language]]s. The symbol in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] that represents this sound is {{angbr IPA|sʼ}}.

==Features==
Features of an alveolar ejective fricative:
{{sibilant}}
{{alveolar}}
{{voiceless short}}
{{oral}}
{{central articulation}}
{{ejective}}
In many languages, it is allophonic with the affricate [ts'].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Shosted |first1=Ryan K. |last2=Rose |first2=Sharon |date=2011 |title=Affricating ejective fricatives: The case of Tigrinya |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44526590 |journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=41–65 |doi=10.1017/S0025100310000319 |jstor=44526590 |s2cid=17186877 |issn=0025-1003|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Occurrence==
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2"|Language !! Word !! [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]!! Meaning !! Notes
|-
| [[Adyghe language|Adyghe]] || [[Shapsug Adyghe dialect|Shapsug]]{{cn|date=March 2024}} || {{lang|ady-Cyrl|[[Cyrillic script|'''сӏ'''э]]}} || {{Audio|Сӏэ.ogg|[sʼa]}} || 'name' || Corresponds to {{IPA|[tsʼ]}} in other dialects.
|-
| colspan="2" |[[Amharic]]
| colspan="3" |{{Example needed|date=April 2025}}
|More frequently realized as an allophone {{IPAblink|t͡sʼ}}
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Ganza language|Ganza]]<ref name="Smolders-2016">{{Cite journal |last=Smolders |first=Joshua |date=2016 |title=A Phonology of Ganza |url=http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/document/1070 |format=pdf |journal=Linguistic Discovery |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=86–144 |doi=10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.470 |access-date=2017-01-16 |doi-access=free}}</ref>{{rp|101}} || colspan="2" align="center" |  {{IPA|[sʼásʼà]}} || ‘fat, thick’ ||
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Hausa language|Hausa]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jaggar |first=Philip J. |url=https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027283047 |title=Hausa |date=2001-12-19 |publisher=John Benjamins |isbn=978-90-272-8304-7 |series=London Oriental and African Language Library |volume=7 |language=en |doi=10.1075/loall.7}}</ref>|| {{lang|ha|'''ts'''u'''ts'''a}} || {{IPA|[sʼusʼa]}} || 'worm' || Allophone of {{IPA|/tsʼ/}} in some dialects
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Keres language|Keres]]{{cn|date=March 2024}} || '''s{{'}}'''eeka || {{IPA|[sʼeːkʰa]}} || 'sure'
|
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Lakota language|Lakota]]{{cn|date=March 2024}} || {{lang|lkt|'''s{{'}}'''a}} || {{IPA|[sʼa]}} || 'habitually'||
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Tlingit language|Tlingit]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Maddieson |first=Ian |last2=Smith |first2=Caroline L. |last3=Bessell |first3=Nicola |date=2001 |title=Aspects of the Phonetics of Tlingit |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30028779 |journal=Anthropological Linguistics |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=135–176 |issn=0003-5483 |jstor=30028779}}</ref>|| {{lang|tli|[[Tlingit alphabet|'''sʼ'''eek]]}} || {{Audio-IPA|Sʼeek.ogg|[sʼiːkʰ]}} || 'bear' ||
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Upper Necaxa Totonac]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Beck |first=David |date=2006-01-01 |title=The emergence of ejective fricatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac |url=https://www.academia.edu/17745106 |journal=University of Alberta Working Papers in Linguistics}}</ref>|| colspan="2" align="center" | {{IPA|[ˈsʼa̰ta̰]}} || 'small' ||
|-
| colspan="2" |[[Catio language|Emberá-Catío]]<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Mortensen |first=Charles Arthur |title=Nasalization in a revision of Embera-Katio phonology |date=1994 |degree=masters |publisher=MA thesis, University of Texas |url=https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/10027 |place=Arlington}}</ref>
| colspan="2" |/sʼokʰo/ [sʼokxo]
|'type of water jar'
|
|}

==See also==
* [[Index of phonetics articles]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{phoible|sʼ}}

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