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Dzs is the eighth letter, and the onlytrigraph, of theHungarian alphabet. Its name is pronounced[dʒeː], and represents the sounds[d͡ʒ] and[dː͡ʒ], like in Englishjump.
Dz anddzs were recognized as individual letters in the 11th edition ofHungarian orthography (1984).[1] Prior to that, they were analyzed as two-letter combinationsd+z andd+zs.
Dzs, along withDz, are rather uncommon letters or sequences mostly used for terms of foreign origin.
In several words, it is pronounced long, e.g.
in other ones, short, e.g.
It is short without exception:
It is not usually doubled even when it is pronounced long, except when a word with this sound has anassimilated suffix:bridzs + dzsel: briddzsel (withthe bridge game).
Usage of this letter is similar todž inSlovak orCzech. In Hungarian, even though these three characters are put together to make a different sound, they are considered one letter, and evenacronyms keep the letter intact. As one can see from the examples above and below, it is almost exclusively used in foreign loanwords, to represent thevoiced postalveolar affricate (j/soft g in English).
The following are Hungarian loanwords (mostly taken from English) using the trigraphdzs: