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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.
The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are d͡ʑ , d͜ʑ , ɟ͡ʑ and ɟ͜ʑ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are d_z\ and J\_z\, though transcribing the stop component with ɟ (J\ in X-SAMPA) is rare.
The English sounds spelled "ch" and "j" (broadly transcribed as [t͡ʃ] and [d͡ʒ] in the IPA), German and Italian z [t͡s] and Italian z [d͡z] are typical affricates, and sounds like these are fairly common in the world's languages, as are other affricates with similar sounds, such as those in Polish and Chinese.
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.
It is pronounced as the s in "treasure" or the si in the word "precision". It is used with that value in Uropi. It is used in the "International Standard" orthography, as devised by Marcel Courthiade for Romani. It was also used in an obsolete Latin alphabet for writing Komi, where it represented [d͡ʑ] (similar to English j ). In the modern ...
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 .
J, or j, is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.Its usual name in English is jay (pronounced / ˈ dʒ eɪ / ⓘ), with a now-uncommon variant jy / ˈ dʒ aɪ /.
The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (Czech: háček, Slovak: mäkčeň, Slovene: strešica, Serbo-Croatian: kvačica).It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j.