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c: c: t͡ʃ, t͡ɕ or sometimes t͡s. broad transcription nv ligature close front rounded vowel: y: proposed in 1989, rejected [3] ᵿ˞ barred horseshoe u with hook back sulcal vowel: proposed in 1989, rejected [3] w with left hook voiced labial-velar fricative (labialized voiced velar fricative) ɣʷ: proposed in 1989, rejected [3
Few languages also have the voiced alveolar tapped fricative, which is simply a very brief apical alveolar non-sibilant fricative, with the tongue making the gesture for a tapped stop but not making full contact. It can be indicated in the IPA with the lowering diacritic to show that full occlusion does not occur.
A cedilla (/ s ɪ ˈ d ɪ l ə / sih-DIH-lə; from Spanish cedilla, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille, pronounced), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters (as a diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modified.
The phonemes /f/, /g/, /d͡ʒ/ and /d͡z/ usually occur in words of foreign origin (Germanic, Romance or Greek) or dialects only. As for /f/, however, the number of words where it occurs is still significant and many of them are commonplace, e.g. fialový ('violet'), fronta ('queue' as a noun), fotit ('take photos'), doufat ('hope' as a verb).
The Italian soft c pronunciation is /tʃ/ (as in cello and ciao), while the hard c is the same as in English. Italian orthography uses ch to indicate a hard pronunciation before e or i , analogous to English using k (as in kill and keep ) and qu (as in mosquito and queue ).
However, shapes similar to Z/z can be used in certain stylish typefaces. In calligraphy and in general handwritten text, lowercase з can be written either fully over the baseline (similar to the printed form) or with the lower half under the baseline and with the loop (for the Russian language, a standard shape since the middle of the 20th ...
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A voiced alveolar affricate is a type of affricate consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line) just behind the teeth. This refers to a class of sounds, not a single sound.