Graphemes for /ts/ and Related Phonemes

Alveolars

/ts/ - voiceless alveolar affricate

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
ast-Latn	<ts>	muntsu ‘many’	Only south-central Asturias
bec-Latn	<c>	ɔcalɛ ‘bridge’, cile ‘cover’
de-Latn	<tz>	Katze ‘cat’
de-Latn	<t>	Information ‘information’	‹ti› as in -tion, -tiär, -tial, -tiell
de-Latn	<z>	Zeit ‘time’
ha-Latn	<ts>	tsarki ‘holiness’	May be realized as [ts], [ts'], or [s'].
ii-Latn	<z>	zie ‘straight’
ne-Deva	<च>	चामल ‘uncooked rice’

/tsʰ/ - aspirated voiceless alveolar affricate

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
ii-Latn	<c>	ce ‘salt’
ne-Deva	<छ>	छत्तीस ‘thirty-six’

/tsʷ/ - labialized voiceless alveolar affricate

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
bec-Latn	<cw>	cwa ‘accuse’, icwe ‘shame’

Dentals

/t̪s/ - voiceless dental affricate

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
ru-Cyrl	<тьс>	нра́виться ‘to like’
ru-Cyrl	<ц>	цена́ ‘price’	Preceding either a vowel, a voiceless consonant, or ‹л, м, н, р, в›, or if word-final

Linguolabials

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