Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate

Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
dʑ
ɟʑ
ʥ
IPA Number	216
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Entity (decimal)	ʥ
Unicode (hex)	U+02A5
X-SAMPA	d_z\
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The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are ⟨d͡ʑ⟩, ⟨d͜ʑ⟩, ⟨ɟ͡ʑ⟩ and ⟨ɟ͜ʑ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are d_z\ and J\_z\, though transcribing the stop component with ⟨ɟ⟩ (J\ in X-SAMPA) is rare. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨dʑ⟩ or ⟨ɟʑ⟩ in the IPA and dz\ or J\z\ in X-SAMPA.

Neither [d] nor [ɟ] are a completely narrow transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as [d̠ʲ] (retracted and palatalized [d]), [ɟ̟] or [ɟ˖] (both symbols denote an advanced [ɟ]). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are d_-' or d_-_j and J\_+, respectively. There is also a dedicated symbol ⟨ȡ⟩, which is not a part of the IPA. Therefore, narrow transcriptions of the voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate include [d̠ʲʑ], [ɟ̟ʑ], [ɟ˖ʑ] and [ȡʑ].

This affricate used to have a dedicated symbol U+02A5 ʥ ; ⟨ʥ⟩ was one of the six dedicated symbols for affricates in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is the sibilant equivalent of voiced palatal affricate.

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 intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Bengali		যখন	[d͡ʑɔkʰon]	'when'	See Bengali phonology
Catalan	All dialects	mitjà	[mɪ(d)ˈd͡ʑa]	'medium'	See Catalan phonology
	Valencian	joc	[ˈd͡ʑɔk]	'game'
Chinese	Southern Min	日 / ji̍t	[d͡ʑit̚˧ʔ]	'sun'
	Wu	渠	[d͡ʑy]	'he/she/it'
Irish	Some dialects	dearg	[d͡ʑaɾˠəɡ]	'red'	Realization of the palatalized alveolar stop /dʲ/ in dialects such as Erris, Teelin and Tourmakeady. See Irish phonology
Japanese		知人 / chijin	[t͡ɕid͡ʑĩɴ]	'acquaintance'	See Japanese phonology
Korean		편지 / pyeonji	[pʰjɘːnd͡ʑi]	'letter'	See Korean phonology
Malay	Jambi	توجوه / tujuh	[tud͡ʑʊh]	'seven'	See Jambi Malay
Okinawan		fijeetiinagaa	[ɸid͡ʑeːtiːnagaː]	'thief'
Polish		dźwięk		'sound'	See Polish phonology
Romanian	Banat dialect	des	[d͡ʑes]	'frequent'	Allophone of /d/ before front vowels. 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 Kajkavian and Chakavian dialects. See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Uzbek
Xumi	Lower	[d͡ʑɐʔ˦]		'water'
	Upper	[d͡ʑɐ̝˦]
Yi		ꐚ / jji	[d͡ʑi˧]	'bee'

See also

• Index of phonetics articles