k’ [k’]

Velar Ejective

North Slavey, Deline

1. k’į́ [k’ĩ́] "birch"  -  Speaker: SP5

The velar ejective k’ [k’] in word-initial position, showing the characteristic ejective pattern. Compare this example to examples of other ejectives t’ [t’], ts’ [ts’], and ch’ [tʃ’], as well as the following example of k’ [k’] in word-medial position. 

2018-06-19

2. gók’á [kók’ə́] "cold"  -  Speaker: SP6

The velar ejective k’ [k’] in stem-initial position. The characteristic ejective pattern is visible in the waveform and the spectrogram. 

2018-06-19