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Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician zayn 𐤆, Hebrew zayīn ז , Aramaic zain 𐡆, Syriac zayn ܙ, and Arabic zāy ز . It represents the sound . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З, as well as Ж.
The IPA letter z is not normally used for dental or postalveolar sibilants in narrow transcription unless modified by a diacritic ( z̪ and z̠ respectively). The IPA symbol for the alveolar non-sibilant fricative is derived by means of diacritics ; it can be ð̠ or ɹ̝ .
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.
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 s in treasure / ˈ t r ɛ ʒ ər /, and the g in beige / b eɪ ʒ /. Ezh is also used as a letter in some orthographies of Laz and Skolt Sami, both by itself, and with a caron ( Ǯ ǯ ).
The letter was originally introduced in 1513 by Stanisław Zaborowski in his book Ortographia. [ 2 ] Occasionally, the letter Ƶ ƶ (Z with a horizontal stroke) is used instead of Ż ż for aesthetic purposes, especially in all-caps text and handwriting.
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Nonetheless, the /p/ sound is very common cross-linguistically. Most languages have at least a plain /p/ , and some distinguish more than one variety. Many Indo-Aryan languages , such as Hindustani , have a two-way contrast between the aspirated /pʰ/ and the plain /p/ (also transcribed as [p˭] in extensions to the IPA ).
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