A palatal lateral ejective affricate is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (extIPA; standard IPA: ).
It is a rare sound, found in Dahalo, a Cushitic language of Kenya, and in Hadza, a language isolate of Tanzania. In Dahalo, contrasts with alveolar , and in Hadza it contrasts with velar , an allophone of .
Features of a palatal lateral ejective affricate:
The Hadza sound has been transcribed as , but alveolar contact of the tongue is variable and not distinctive.