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  2. Russian phonology - Wikipedia

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    Modern Russian tends to affricatize these sounds to [tʲsʲ], [dʲzʲ] as in Belarusian. [77] This phenomenon is called «tsekanye». Soft /lʲ/ is either laminal alveolar [l̻ʲ] or laminal denti-alveolar [l̪ʲ]. [72] [78] /ts, s, sʲ, z, zʲ/ are dental [t̪s̪, s̪, s̪ʲ, z̪, z̪ʲ], [79] i.e. dentalized laminal alveolar. They are ...

  3. Russian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Because Russian borrows terms from other languages, there are various conventions for sounds not present in Russian. For example, while Russian has no [ h ] , there are a number of common words (particularly proper nouns) borrowed from languages like English and German that contain such a sound in the original language.

  4. Help:IPA/Russian - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Russian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Russian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  5. Voiced retroflex fricative - Wikipedia

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    Schematic mid-sagittal section. Features of the voiced retroflex sibilant: Its manner of articulation is sibilant fricative, which means it is generally produced by channeling air flow along a groove in the back of the tongue up to the place of articulation, at which point it is focused against the sharp edge of the nearly clenched teeth, causing high-frequency turbulence.

  6. Dze - Wikipedia

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    The initial sound of Ѕ in Old Church Slavonic was a soft /d͡z/ or /z/, which usually came from a historically palatalised *g (ноѕѣ, ѕвѣзда, etc.). In almost all Slavic dialects this sound was pronounced as a simple /z/; however, as the Old Church Slavonic language was based on the Bulgaro-Macedonian dialects, the sound remained ...

  7. Zhe (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    It commonly represents the voiced retroflex sibilant /ʐ/ or voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/, like the pronunciation of the s in "measure". It is also often used with D to approximate the sound in English of the Latin letter J with a ДЖ combination. Zhe is romanized as zh , j or ž .

  8. Why the letter Z has become Russia's pro-war symbol during ...

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    Russia’s defense ministry has not explicitly commented on the use of the letter in its current context, but did post on Instagram last week that the pro-war symbol stems from the Russian phrase ...

  9. Palatalization (phonetics) - Wikipedia

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    In phonetics, palatalization (/ ˌ p æ l ə t ə l aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən /, US also /-l ɪ-/) or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.