Palatal lateral ejective affricate
The palatal lateral ejective affricate is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is  (extIPA; strict IPA: ).

It is a rare sound, found in Dahalo, a Cushitic language of Kenya, and in Hadza, a language isolate of Tanzania.  In Dahalo,  contrasts with alveolar , and in Hadza it contrasts with velar , an allophone of .

Features
Features of the palatal lateral ejective affricate:

Occurrence

The Hadza sound has been transcribed as , but alveolar contact of the tongue is variable and not distinctive.

Notes

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Affricates
Lateral consonants
Palatal consonants
Ejectives
Oral consonants