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Voiced retroflex fricative

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ʐ⟩ in IPA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Voiced retroflex fricative
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A 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. 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).

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Features of a voiced retroflex sibilant:

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In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical [ʐ̺] and laminal [ʐ̻].

The frequency of [ʐ] cross-linguistically is 2% in a phonological analysis of 2155 languages.[1]

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Voiced retroflex non-sibilant fricative

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Features of a voiced retroflex non-sibilant fricative:

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