| Ipa Symbol: | ʑ |
| Ipa Number: | 183 |
| Decimal1: | 657 |
| X-Sampa: | z\ |
| Braille: | “ |
| Braille2: | z |
| Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x0291.svg |
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 (IPA|ʑ) ("z", plus the curl also found in its voiceless counterpart pronounced as /link/), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is z\. It is the sibilant equivalent of the voiced palatal fricative, and as such it can be transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ʝ˖).
Features of the voiced alveolo-palatal fricative:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | Abkhazian: [[Cyrillic script|а'''жь'''а]] | pronounced as /[aˈʑa]/ | 'hare' | See Abkhaz phonology | ||
| Kabardian: [[Cyrillic script|'''жь'''ау]] | pronounced as /[ʑaːw]/ | 'shadow' | ||||
| Catalan; Valencian: [[Catalan orthography|a'''j'''ut]] | pronounced as /[ɐˈʑut̪]/ | 'help' (n.) | See Catalan phonology | |||
| All dialects | Catalan; Valencian: [[Catalan orthography|ca'''ix'''mir]] | pronounced as /[kä(j)ʑˈmiɾ]/ | 'Cashmere' | |||
| pronounced as /[ʑyœʔ]/ | 'ten' | |||||
| [[Chinese characters|今仔日]]/[[Pe̍h-ōe-jī|kin-á-'''j'''i̍t]] | pronounced as /[kɪn˧a˥ʑɪt˥]/ | 'today' | ||||
| Czech | Czech: [[Czech alphabet|'''ž'''ivot]] | pronounced as /[ʑɪvot]/ | 'life' | See Czech phonology | ||
| Ghana | pronounced as /[ˈviʑin]/ | 'vision' | Educated speakers may use pronounced as /link/, which this phoneme corresponds to in other dialects. | |||
| Japanese | Japanese: [[Kanji|火事]]/Japanese: [[Romanization of Japanese|ka'''j'''i]] | pronounced as /[kaʑi]/ | 'fire' | Found in free variation with pronounced as /link/ between vowels. See Japanese phonology | ||
| Kabardian | Kabardian: [[Cyrillic script|'''жь'''э]] | pronounced as /[ʑa]/ | 'mouth' | |||
| pronounced as /[ʑäs̪ɛt̪ɨ]/ | 'tenth' | |||||
| Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch: héi'''j'''en | pronounced as /[ˈhɜ̝ɪ̯ʑən]/ | 'high' | Allophone of pronounced as //ʁ// after phonologically front vowels; some speakers merge it with pronounced as /link/. Occurs in only a few words. See Luxembourgish phonology | |||
| pronounced as /[ʑu˧˥]/ | 'small' | |||||
| Polish | Polish: [[Polish alphabet|'''ź'''rebię]] | 'foal' | Also denoted by the digraph (zi). See Polish phonology | |||
| Portuguese: [[Portuguese orthography|ma'''g'''ia]] | pronounced as /[maˈʑi.ɐ]/ | 'magic' | Also described as palato-alveolar pronounced as /link/. See Portuguese phonology | |||
| [[Romani alphabets|'''ʒ'''al]] | pronounced as /[ʑal]/ | 'he/she/it goes' | Realized as pronounced as /link/ in conservative dialects. | |||
| Transylvanian dialects | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: [[Romanian alphabet|'''gea'''nă]] | pronounced as /[ˈʑanə]/ | 'eyelash' | Realized as pronounced as /link/ in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology | ||
| Conservative Moscow Standard | Russian: [[Russian alphabet|по'''зж'''е]] | pronounced as /[poʑːe]/ | 'later' | Somewhat obsolete in many words, in which most speakers realize it as hard pronounced as /link/. Present only in a few words, usually written (жж) or (зж). See Russian phonology | ||
| a'''j'''i | pronounced as /[à̠ʑì]/ | 'blood' | Possible allophone of pronounced as //ʒ// before pronounced as //i, e//; can be realized as pronounced as /[{{IPAplink|d͡ʑ}} ~ {{IPAplink|ʒ}} ~ {{IPAplink|d͡ʒ}}]/ instead. | |||
| [[Gaj's Latin alphabet|pu'''ž''' će]] | pronounced as /[pûːʑ t͡ɕe̞]/ | 'the snail will' | Allophone of pronounced as //ʒ// before pronounced as //t͡ɕ, d͡ʑ//. See Serbo-Croatian phonology | |||
| [[Montenegrin alphabet|'''ź'''enica]]/[[Montenegrin alphabet|'''з́'''еница]] | pronounced as /[ʑȇ̞nit̻͡s̪a̠]/ | 'pupil' | Phonemically pronounced as //zj// or, in some cases, pronounced as //z//. | |||
| Paraguayan[1] | pronounced as /[ˈkaʑo]/ | 'car' | Dialectal realization of pronounced as //r// and allophone of pronounced as //ɾ// after pronounced as //t//. | |||
| Tatar | Kazan dialect (standard Tatar) | җан / can | [ʑan] | 'soul' | In Mishar Dialect, letter җ / c is [<nowiki/>[[Voiced postalveolar affricate|d͡ʒ]]].[2] | |
| Upper | pronounced as /[ʑɐ̝˦]/ | 'beer, wine' | ||||
| Sichuan Yi; Nuosu: [[Yi script|ꑳ]]/Sichuan Yi; Nuosu: '''y'''i | pronounced as /[ʑi˧]/ | 'tobacco' | ||||
pronounced as /navigation/