Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative

A voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɕ⟩ ("c", plus the curl also found in its voiced counterpart ⟨ʑ⟩). Some Americanists may distinguish ⟨ɕ⟩ as an affricate, typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨t͡ɕ⟩, and instead use the symbol ⟨𝼞⟩ to represent the fricative that is referenced on this page. There is also a superscript ⟨ᶝ⟩ / ⟨𐞺⟩. It is the sibilant equivalent of the voiceless palatal fricative.