Talk:Voiced velar affricate

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Where?[edit]

Is this sound actually attested in any natural language? It appears neither in the UPSID nor in the Wikipedia description of any language. I don't think we need this page just for symmetry reasons, plus it's of misleading to suggest that this is a human speech sound if it actually is not.

(This also applies to the voiced uvular affricate.)

--Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 23:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The sound occurs in the Weh language (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon) along with its unvoiced counterpart according to an unpublished phonology sketch by Phil Davison working with SIL in 2009.

And Kaliai, which contrasts prenasal /ŋɡ/ with affricate /ɡɣ/. However plosive [ɡ] is an accepted allophone of the affricate at least in some positions. (Counts, David R. 1969. A Grammar of Kaliai Kove. (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication, No. 6.) Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.)

I would like to take this moment to lament the poor state of linguistics articles on Wikipedia. 121.45.171.107 (talk) 04:53, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of expecting perfection from linguistics articles on Wikipedia you can improve them yourself. The latter is a more productive approach, I think. Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 02:39, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]