2 examples
Tłį Chǫ (Dogrib), Behchokǫ̀ - Phoneme: ts’ [ts'] - IPA: Alveolar ejective affricate.
1 Word: ts’et’ìidzèè [ts'ɛt'jɑdʒè:] "tobacco" - Speaker: SP2
An alveolar affricate ejective ts' [ts'] in initial position in a word. This ejective is a weak ejective, there is only a slight period of silence between the fricative portion of the sound and the onset of the vowel. In both this and the following example, this sound ts' [ts'] is very similar to an aspirated alveolar affricate ts [tsʰ].
2 Word: nįhts’i [nĩts'i] "wind" - Speaker: SP2
An affricate ejective in medial position in a word. In this example this sound is very similiar to the alveolar ejective t'.
