Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate

Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
d͡ʑ
d͜ʑ
IPA number	216
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⟩).

Although the voiced alveolo-palatal non-sibilant affricate has not been reported to occur in any language, it can be represented in the IPA as ⟨ɟ͇͡ʝ͇⟩, ⟨ɟ̟͡ʝ̟⟩ or simply ⟨ɟ͡ʝ˖⟩.

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

See also

• Index of phonetics articles

References

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