A velar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨kxʼ⟩. [kxʼ] is a common realization of a velar ejective often transcribed /kʼ/, and it is rare for a language to distinguish /kʼ/ and /kxʼ/, though several of the Nguni languages do so, as well as the Northeast Caucasian language Karata-Tukita.

Features of a velar ejective affricate:

* Its manner of articulation is affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.

* Its place of articulation is velar, which means it is articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum) at the soft palate.

* Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.

* It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.

* It is a median consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream down the midline of the tongue, rather than to the sides.

* The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.