Voiced retroflex sibilant
| Voiced retroflex sibilant | |||
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| ʐ | |||
| IPA number | 137 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ʐ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+0290 | ||
| X-SAMPA | z` |
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| Kirshenbaum | z. |
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The voiced retroflex 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 ⟨ʐ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is z`. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of a z (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant).
Some scholars transcribe the laminal variant of this sound as /ʒ/, even though it is not palatalized. In such cases the voiced palato-alveolar sibilant is transcribed /ʒʲ/.
Features of the voiced retroflex fricative:
In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical [ʐ̺] and laminal [ʐ̻].
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