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  2. Hard and soft G - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Voiced palatal approximant - Wikipedia

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    The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are j\_o_-and G_o_+. Especially in broad transcription, the post-palatal approximant may be transcribed as a palatalized velar approximant ( ɰʲ , ɣ̞ʲ or ɣ˕ʲ in the IPA, M\', M\_j, G'_o or G_o_j in X-SAMPA). A voiced alveolar-palatal approximant is attested as phonemic in the Huastec language.

  4. Voiced palatal fricative - Wikipedia

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    The voiced palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) that represents this sound is ʝ (crossed-tail j), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j\.

  5. Voiced palatal plosive - Wikipedia

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    The voiced palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɟ , a barred dotless j that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter f . The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\\.

  6. Latin phonology and orthography - Wikipedia

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    /j/ generally appeared only at the beginning of words, before a vowel, as in iaceō, except in compound words such as adiaceō (pronounced something like listen ⓘ). Between vowels, it was generally as a geminate /jj/ , as in cuius (pronounced something like listen ⓘ ) except in compound words such as trāiectus .

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet chart - Wikipedia

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    The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association.

  8. The 'G-word': The slur you didn't know was a slur - AOL

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    Episode 1: "The G-Word." In the fall of 2019, reporter Faith E. Pinho received a tip from Paulina Stevens. Paulina said she had grown up in an insular Romani community in California, where she was ...

  9. Palatal consonant - Wikipedia

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    The most common type of palatal consonant is the extremely common approximant [j], which ranks among the ten most common sounds in the world's languages. [1] The nasal [ɲ] is also common, occurring in around 35 percent of the world's languages, [2] in most of which its equivalent obstruent is not the stop [c], but the affricate [].