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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Last letter of the Latin alphabet This article is about the letter of the Latin alphabet. For the Greek letter with the same symbol, see Zeta. For other uses, see Z (disambiguation). Z Z z Usage Writing system Latin script Type Alphabetic and logographic Language of origin Latin language ...
In Maltese, ż represents the voiced alveolar sibilant [z], pronounced like "z" in English "maze". This contrasts with the letter z , which represents the voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate [ts], like in the word "hats". The corresponding letter in Arabic in this Maltese letter is ز.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of English on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of English in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
It is the 22nd letter of the Karelian and Veps alphabets. It is the 29th letter of the Northern Sami alphabet, where it represents . It is regarded as a variant of Z in Finnish. In Finnish, the letter ž is used in loan words, džonkki and maharadža, and in romanization of Cyrillic and other non-Latin alphabets.
The letters chosen for the IPA are meant to harmonize with the Latin alphabet. [note 7] For this reason, most letters are either Latin or Greek, or modifications thereof. Some letters are neither: for example, the letter denoting the glottal stop, ʔ , originally had the form of a question mark with the dot removed.
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.
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 .
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).