How these sounds differ
t̪s̪ʰ|tsʰ
Voiceless Alveolar Affricate
- Voicing
- voiceless
- Place
- alveolar
- Manner
- affricate
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 7 / 500
d̻z̻
Voiced Alveolar Affricate
- Voicing
- voiced
- Place
- alveolar
- Manner
- affricate
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 2 / 500
Cross-linguistic distribution
7
Languages with t̪s̪ʰ|tsʰ
0
Languages with both
2
Languages with d̻z̻
0 languages in our database contrast both sounds as distinct phonemes. Languages that have one but not the other tend to merge them into a single phoneme — meaning speakers of those languages often struggle to hear the distinction when learning a language that contrasts them.