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the common Dutch letters c and z are rare and used only in loanwords (e.g. chalet); the common Dutch vowel ij is not used; instead, i and y are used (e.g. -lik, sy); the common Dutch word ending -en is rare, being replaced by -e.
The letters Q, X and Z are absent since these letters are very rare and only occur in foreign words. These letters and the foreign letters "Ä", "Ö" and "Ü", which are used in a few Norwegian words, can be played with a blank. C and W also occur only in foreign words, but they are not so rare, [35] so they were included.
The voiced palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are ɟ͡ʝ and ɟ͜ʝ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\_j\. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ɟʝ in the IPA and J\j\ in X-SAMPA.
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.
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\. It is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant.
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voiced alveolar sibilant [z] voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant [ ʃ ] voiced palato-alveolar sibilant [ʒ] voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant (palatalized postalveolar) [ɕ] voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant [ʑ] voiceless retroflex sibilant [ʂ] voiced retroflex sibilant [ʐ ] Central non-sibilant fricatives. voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ]
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