2 examples
North Slavey, Deline - Phoneme: sh [ʃ] - IPA: Voiceless post-alveolar fricative.
1 Word: shégeye [ʃékeje] - Speaker: SP6
A voiceless post-alveolar fricative sh in word initial position.
2 Word: shú [ʃú] "mountain" - Speaker: SP5
Another example of a voiceless post-alveolar fricative sh in word initial position.This word was said in isolation, the initial consonant is quite long, but gives a good idea of how strongly the fricatives are articulated in the Dene languages, compared to English for example.
