Voiceless palatal implosive

Voiceless palatal implosive
ʄ̊
ƈ
cʼ↓

A voiceless palatal implosive is a rare consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʄ̥ or cʼ↓. A dedicated IPA letter, ƈ, was withdrawn in 1993.

Features

Features of the voiced palatal implosive:

Occurrence

A rare and evidently unstable sound, /ʄ̥/ is attested from the Serer language of Senegal.

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