| Voiced alveolar sibilant affricate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| dz | |||
| ʣ | |||
| IPA number | 104 133 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity(decimal) | ʣ | ||
| Unicode(hex) | U+02A3 | ||
| X-SAMPA | dz | ||
| |||
Avoiced alveolar affricate is a type ofaffricate consonant pronounced with thetip orblade of the tongue against thealveolar ridge (gum line) just behind the teeth. There are several types with significant perceptual differences:
Avoiced alveolar sibilant affricate is a type ofconsonantal sound used in somespokenlanguages. The sound is transcribed in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨d͡z⟩ or ⟨d͜z⟩ (formerly ⟨ʣ⟩ or ⟨ƻ⟩).
Features of a voiced alveolar sibilant affricate:
The following sections are named after the fricative component.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armenian | Eastern[2] | ձուկ/dzuk | [d̻͡z̪uk]ⓘ | 'fish' | |
| Belarusian[3] | пэндзаль/pendzal | [ˈpɛn̪d̻͡z̪alʲ] | 'paintbrush' | Contrasts withpalatalized form. SeeBelarusian phonology | |
| Czech[4] | Afgánec byl | [ˈävɡäːnɛd̻͡z̪bɪɫ̪] | 'an Afghan was' | Allophone of/t͡s/ before voiced consonants. SeeCzech phonology | |
| Hungarian[5] | bodza | [ˈbod̻͡z̪ːɒ] | 'elderberry' | SeeHungarian phonology | |
| Japanese | 残念/zan'nen | [d͡zã̠nːẽ̞ɴ] | 'regretful' | SeeJapanese phonology | |
| Kashubian[6] | dze | [d͡ze] | 'where' | ||
| Latvian[7] | drudzis | [ˈd̪rud̻͡z̪is̪] | 'fever' | SeeLatvian phonology | |
| Macedonian[8] | ѕвезда/dzvezda | [ˈd̻͡z̪ve̞z̪d̪ä] | 'star' | SeeMacedonian phonology | |
| Montenegrin[9] | dzindzula | [ˈd̻͡z̪inˈd̻͡z̪ulä] | 'jujube' | SeeMontenegrin phonology | |
| Pashto | ځوان | [d͡zwɑn] | 'youth' 'young' | SeePashto phonology | |
| Polish[10] | dzwon | [d̻͡z̪vɔn̪]ⓘ | 'bell' | SeePolish phonology | |
| Russian[11] | плацдарм/placdarm | [pɫ̪ɐd̻͡z̪ˈd̪är̠m] | 'bridgehead' | Allophone of/t͡s/ before voiced consonants. SeeRussian phonology | |
| Serbo-Croatian[12] | otac bi | [ǒ̞t̪äd̻͡z̪bi] | 'father would' | Allophone of/t͡s/ before voiced consonants.[12] SeeSerbo-Croatian phonology | |
| Slovak | medzi | [med͡zi] | 'between' | SeeSlovak phonology | |
| Slovene[13] | brivec brije | [ˈbɾíːʋə̀d̻͡z̪bɾíjɛ̀] | 'barber shaves' | Allophone of/t͡s/ before voiced consonants in native words. As a phoneme present only in loanwords. SeeSlovene phonology | |
| Tyap | zat | [d͡zad] | 'buffalo' | ||
| Ukrainian[14] | дзвінdzvin | [d̻͡z̪ʋin̪] | 'bell' | Contrasts withpalatalized form. SeeUkrainian phonology | |
| Upper Sorbian[15] | [example needed] | Allophone of/t͡s/ before voiced consonants.[15] | |||
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | Najdi[16] | قـليب/dzilīb | [d͡zəliːb] | 'well' | Corresponds to/q/,/ɡ/, or/dʒ/ in other dialects. |
| English | BroadCockney[17] | day | [ˈd͡zæˑɪ̯] | 'day' | Possible word-initial, intervocalic and word-final allophone of/d/.[18][19] SeeEnglish phonology |
| Received Pronunciation[19] | [ˈd͡zeˑɪ̯] | ||||
| New York[20] | Possible syllable-initial and sometimes also utterance-final allophone of/d/.[20] SeeEnglish phonology | ||||
| Scouse[21] | Possible syllable-initial and word-final allophone of/d/.[21] SeeEnglish phonology | ||||
| French | Quebec | du | [d͡zy] | 'of the' | Allophone of/d/ before/i,y,j/. |
| Georgian[22] | ძვალი/dzvali | [d͡zvɑli] | 'bone' | ||
| Luxembourgish[23] | spadséieren | [ʃpɑˈd͡zɜ̝ɪ̯əʀən] | 'to go for a walk' | Marginal phoneme that occurs only in a few words.[23] SeeLuxembourgish phonology | |
| Marathi | जोर/dzor | [d͡zor] | 'force' | Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated versions. The unaspirated is represented by ज, which also represents [d͡ʒ]. The aspirated sound is represented by झ, which also represents [d͡ʒʱ]. There is no marked difference for either one. | |
| Ollari | jōnel | [d͡zoːnel] | 'maize' | ||
| Nepali | आज/ādza | [äd͡zʌ] | 'today' | Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated versions. The unaspirated is represented by /ज/. The aspirated sound is represented by /झ/. SeeNepali phonology | |
| Naiki | jūrol | [d͡zuːɾol] | 'cricket' | ||
| Portuguese | European[24] | desafio | [d͡zɐˈfi.u] | 'challenge' | Allophone of/d/ before/i,ĩ/, or assimilation due to the deletion of/i~ɨ~e/. Increasingly used in Brazil.[25] |
| Brazilian[24][25] | aprendizado | [apɾẽ̞ˈd͡zadu] | 'learning' | ||
| Many speakers | mezzosoprano | [me̞d͡zo̞so̞ˈpɾɐ̃nu] | 'mezzo-soprano' | Marginal sound. Some might instead usespelling pronunciations.[26] SeePortuguese phonology | |
| Romanian | Moldavian dialects[27] | zic | [d͡zɨk] | 'say' | Corresponds to[z] in standard Romanian. SeeRomanian phonology |
| Telugu | ౙత/dzata | [d͡zɐt̪ɐ] | 'pair, set' | ||
| Teochew | Swatow | 日本/jitpun | [d͡zit̚˨˩.pʊn˥˧] | 'Japan' | |
| Toda | üɀ | [yd͡z] | 'five' | ||
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalan[28] | dotze | [ˈd̪odd̠͡z̠ə] | 'twelve' | Apical. SeeCatalan phonology | |
| Occitan | Gascon | messatge | [məˈs̠ːa̠d̠͡z̠ə] | 'message' | Laminal in other dialects. Varies with[dʒ] in some words. |
| Languedocien | |||||
| Piedmontese | arvëdse | [ɑrˈvəd̠͡z̠e] | 'goodbye' | ||
| Sardinian | Central dialects | pranzu | [ˈpränd̠͡z̠u] | 'lunch' | |
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greek[29] | τζάκι | [ˈd͡zɐc̠i] | 'fireplace' | Varies between retracted and non-retracted, depending on the environment. Phonemically, it is a stop–fricative sequence.[29] SeeModern Greek phonology | |
| Italian[30] | zero | [ˈd͡zɛːro] | 'zero' | The fricative component varies between dentalized laminal and non-retracted apical. In the latter case, the stop component is laminaldenti-alveolar.[30] SeeItalian phonology | |
| Montenegrin | dzavala | [ˈd̻͡z̪avalä] | 'haystack' | Varies between dentalized laminal and sibilant affricate. SeeMontenegrin phonology | |
| West Frisian[31] | skodzje | [ˈs̠kɔd͡zjə] | 'shake' | Laminal; varies between retracted and non-retracted.[31] Phonemically, it is a stop–fricative sequence. The example word also illustrates[s̠]. SeeWest Frisian phonology | |
| Voiced alveolar non-sibilant affricate | |
|---|---|
| dɹ̝ | |
| dð̠ | |
| dð͇ | |
| Audio sample | |
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect[32] | [example needed] | A possible realization of word-final, non-pre-pausal/r/.[32] | ||
| English | General American[33] | dream | [d͡ɹ̝ʷɪi̯m] | 'dream' | Phonetic realization of the stressed, syllable-initial sequence/dr/; more commonly postalveolar[d̠͡ɹ̠˔].[33] SeeEnglish phonology |
| Received Pronunciation[33] | |||||
| Italian | Sicily[34] | Adriatico | [äd͡ɹ̝iˈäːt̪iko] | 'theAdriatic Sea' | Apical. It is a regional realization of the sequence/dr/, and can be realized as the sequence[dɹ̝] instead.[35] SeeItalian phonology |
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