Voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant
| Voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant | |||
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| ʑ | |||
| IPA number | 183 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ʑ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+0291 | ||
| X-SAMPA | z\ |
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The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʑ⟩ ("z", plus the curl also found in its voiceless counterpart ⟨ɕ⟩), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is z\. It is the sibilant equivalent of the voiced palatal fricative.
The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative does not occur in any major dialect of English. However, it is the usual realization of /ʒ/ (as in vision) in the Ghanaian variety.
Features of the voiced alveolo-palatal fricative:
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