Voiceless palatal affricate

The voiceless palatal affricate is a consonant used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is in Albanian. The pairs of letters for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet are ⟨c͡ç⟩ and ⟨c͜ç⟩, and the its X-SAMPA symbol is c_C. The tie bar doesn't need to be used, so one can use ⟨cç⟩ in the IPA and cC in X-SAMPA. 

The voiceless palatal affricate is in languages such as Hungarian and Skolt Sami. This consonant is very rare. It is very, very rare in Europe (though the Uralic languages and Albanian have it.) 

 Examples 
LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotesAlbanianStandardPalatal controversies Péter Siptár (2013)'I cry'AsturianWestern dialects'woman'Kaingang'cranefly'Dutch'tray' (dim.)Post-palatal; allophone of  before . See Dutch phonologyKorean켜다 / kyeoda'turn on'Allophone of  before  and . See Korean phonologyMakassaresepacce'empathic pain'Allophone of .Navajoashkii'boy'Allophone of  before the front vowels . See Navajo phonologyNorwegianCentral and Western dialects'not'See Norwegian phonologySkolt Samisääˊmǩiõll'Skolt Sami'TamilTirunelveli Tamilகசப்பு / kacappu[kɐc͡çɐpːɯ]'bitterness'

References 

Category:Consonants