Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate

Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
d͡ʑ
d͜ʑ
IPA Number	216
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Encoding
Entity (decimal)	ʥ
Unicode (hex)	U+02A5
X-SAMPA	dz\
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The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨d͡ʑ⟩ (formerly ⟨ʥ⟩).

Features

Features of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate:

• Its manner of articulation is sibilant affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the air flow entirely, then directing it with the tongue to the sharp edge of the teeth, causing high-frequency turbulence.
• Its place of articulation is alveolo-palatal. This means that:
  • Its place of articulation is postalveolar, meaning that the tongue contacts the roof of the mouth in the area behind the alveolar ridge (the gum line).
  • Its tongue shape is laminal, meaning that it is the tongue blade that contacts the roof of the mouth.
  • It is heavily palatalized, meaning that the middle of the tongue is bowed and raised towards the hard palate.
• Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
• It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
• It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
• The airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Catalan	All dialects	metge	[ˈmedd͡ʑə]	'doctor'	See Catalan phonology
	Valencian	joc	[ˈd͡ʑɔk]	'game'
Chinese	Taiwanese Hokkien	日/ji̍t	[d͡ʑit̚˧ʔ]	'sun'
	Wu	渠	[d͡ʑy]	'He/She/It'
Japanese		知人/chijin	[t͡ɕid͡ʑĩɴ]	'acquaintance'	See Japanese phonology
Korean		감자/gamja	[kɐmd͡ʑɐ]	'potato'	See Korean phonology
Polish		dźwięk	<phonos file="Pl-dźwięk-2.ogg">[d͡ʑvʲɛŋk]</phonos>	'sound'	See Polish phonology
Portuguese	Brazilian	tadjique	[tɐˈdʑikʲi̥]	'Tajik'	Allophone of /d/ before /i, ĩ/ (including when [i, ĩ, j] is not actually produced) and other instances of [i] (e.g. epenthesis), marginal sound otherwise. Argued both to be laminal [dʒ], and generally produced "in the middle of the hard palate", same of fellow alveolo-palatal [l̠ʲ] and [n̠ʲ], and further palatalized than Italian post-alveolars. See Portuguese phonology
	Mato-grossense	jeitos	[ˈdʑejtʊ̥̆s]	'manners', 'ways'
	Most Brazilian dialects	windsurf	[ˈwĩdʑi ˈsɐχfɪ̥]	'windsurf'
	Carioca	DJs	[dziˈdʑejɕ]	'DJs'
	Some speakers	faz-de-conta	[ˈfadʑ ʑi ˈkõ̞tə]	'make-believe'
Romanian	Banat dialect	des	[d͡ʑes]	'frequent'	Corresponds to [d] in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology
Russian		дочь бы	[ˈd̪o̞d͡ʑ bɨ]	'daughter would'	Allophone of /t͡ɕ/ before voiced consonants. See Russian phonology
Sema		aji	[à̠d͡ʑì]	'blood'	Possible allophone of /ʒ/ before /i, e/; can be realized as [ʑ ~ ʒ ~ d͡ʒ] instead.
Serbo-Croatian		ђаво / đavo	[d͡ʑâ̠ʋo̞ː]	'devil'	Merges with /d͡ʒ/ in most Croatian and some Bosnian accents. See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Uzbek
Yi		ꐚ/jji	[d͡ʑi˧]	'bee'

See also

• Index of phonetics articles