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Allophone of /t͡ʃ/ before voiced obstruents in native words. As a phoneme present only in loanwords. See Slovene phonology: Somali: joog [d͡ʒoːɡ] 'stop' See Somali phonology: Tagalog: diyan [d͡ʒän] 'there' Used to pronounce the multigraphs dy and diy in native words and j in loanwords outside Spanish.
So in words of French origin like Orange (orange), logieren (to lodge) or Etage (floor), the g is pronounced as [ʒ]; words taken from English like Gin or Gender use the /dʒ/-sound. However others, such as agieren (act, agitate), Generation (generation) or Gymnasium (academic high school), are pronounced with a hard g.
Ezh (Ʒ ʒ) / ˈ ɛ ʒ / ⓘ EZH, also called the "tailed z", is a letter, notable for its use in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the voiced postalveolar fricative consonant. This sound, sometimes transcribed /zh/, occurs in the pronunciation of si in vision / ˈ v ɪ ʒ ən / and precision / p r ɪ ˈ s ɪ ʒ ən / , the ...
The voiced postalveolar or palato-alveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.The International Phonetic Association uses the term voiced postalveolar fricative only for the sound [ʒ], [1] but it also describes the voiced postalveolar non-sibilant fricative [ɹ̠˔], for which there are significant perceptual differences, as one is a sibilant and one is not.
An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant pair. [1]
/ʒ/ and /dʒ/ do not occur in native German words but are common in a number of French and English loan words. Many speakers replace them with /ʃ/ and /tʃ/ respectively (especially in Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland), so that Dschungel (from English jungle ) can be pronounced [ˈdʒʊŋl̩] or [ˈtʃʊŋl̩] .
The emphasis on the boundaries between words or in compound words is usually inserted between two vowels which do not form a diphthong, e.g. zneužívat [znɛʔuʒiːvat] ('to abuse'), táta a máma [taːta ʔa maːma] ('dad and mum'); it is also inserted before initial vowels of the second part of compound words, e.g. trojúhelník ...
Že or Zhe (ژ), used to represent the phoneme /ʒ/ ⓘ, is a letter in the Persian alphabet, based on zayn (ز) with two additional diacritic dots.It is one of the five letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being چ, پ and گ, in addition the obsolete ڤ. [1]