Talk:Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate

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Where's the pronunciation audio file? If none exists, it would be nice if one were added! -Iopq 01:32, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

The sound exist in my native tongue, so I could (theoretically) make it, but I'm not well equipped with the sound-processing software. Please ping me in a week or so. Duja 13:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese phonology

The previous version of this article said, "in Japanese, /t/ is affricated to [ʨ] before /i/ or /j/". That's a natural way to analyze [ʨ] in Japanese, and it fits well with the Japanese writing system. However, I think it's more common now to say that /ʨ/ is a separate phoneme. The Japanese language and Japanese phonology articles both take this position (although Japanese phonology is inconsistent in places).

Fortunately, we don't have to decide which analysis is right. The phonology isn't really relevant to this article anyway, so I've deleted it and just left the actual facts: the sound [ʨ] is used in Japanese, and it's normally romanized as "ch".  --mconst 12:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] style of this page

Wouldn't it be a better idea if we conform it to the arrangements of other pages like Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative? A table of 'occurrence', that is.

石川 (talk) 01:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. That's why this and a few of the affricates pages are marked with cleanup tags. — Ƶ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]} 04:49, 31 January 2008 (UTC)