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Voiced postalveolar affricate

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Voiced postalveolar affricate
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The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with d͡ʒ (formerly the ligature ʤ), or in some broad transcriptions ɟ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is dZ. This affricate has a dedicated symbol U+02A4 ʤ LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH, which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Alternatives commonly used in linguistic works, particularly in older or American literature, are ǰ, ǧ, ǯ, and . It is familiar to English speakers as the pronunciation of j in jump.

Quick Facts dʒ, ʤ ...
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Features

Features of the voiced postalveolar affricate:

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Occurrence

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Voiced postalveolar non-sibilant affricate

Quick Facts d̠ɹ̠˔, dɹ̝˗ ...

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