| Voiced alveolar fricative | |||
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| z | |||
| IPA number | 133 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity(decimal) | z | ||
| Unicode(hex) | U+007A | ||
| X-SAMPA | z | ||
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Voiced alveolar fricatives areconsonantal sounds. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents these sounds depends on whether asibilant or non-sibilant fricative is being described.
| Dental | Denti- alveolar | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retracted | Retroflex | Palato- alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | |||||
| Sibilant | plain | z̪ | z̟ | z͇ | z̠ | ʐ | ʒ | ʑ |
| Non-sibilant | ð | ð͇ | ɻ̝ | |||||
| tapped | ɾ̞ | |||||||
| IPA symbol | meaning | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| place of articulation | passive (mouth) | ⟨z̪⟩ | dental |
| ⟨z̟⟩ | advanced (denti-alveolar) | ||
| ⟨z͇⟩ | alveolar | ||
| ⟨z̠⟩ | retracted (postalveolar) | ||
| active (tongue) | ⟨z̺⟩ | apical | |
| ⟨z̻⟩ | laminal | ||
| ⟨ʐ⟩ | retroflex | ||
| secondary | ⟨zʲ⟩ | palatalized coronal | |
| ⟨ʑ⟩ | alveolo-palatal | ||
| ⟨ʒ⟩ | palato-alveolar | ||
| ⟨zʷ⟩ | labialized coronal | ||
| ⟨zˠ⟩ | velarized coronal | ||
| ⟨zˤ⟩ | pharyngealized coronal | ||
| voice-onset time | ⟨zʱ⟩ | breathy coronal | |
Avoiced alveolar sibilant is common acrossEuropean languages, but is relatively uncommon cross-linguistically compared to itsvoiceless variant. Only about 28% of the world's languages contain a voiced dental or alveolar sibilant. Moreover, 85% of the languages with some form of[z] are languages ofEurope,Africa, orWestern Asia.[citation needed]
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adyghe | зы[romanization needed] | [ˈzə]ⓘ | 'one' | ||
| Albanian | zjarr | [zjar] | 'fire' | ||
| Arabic | Standard[27] | زائِر[romanization needed] | [ˈzaːʔir] | 'visitor' | SeeArabic phonology |
| Assamese | জলকীয়া[romanization needed] | [zɔlɔkija] | 'chili' | ||
| Assyrian | ܙܢ̱ܓܐ /zìga | [ziɡa] | 'bell' | ||
| Bengali | নামাজ[romanization needed] | [namaz] | 'Salah' | Mostly in loanwords and often replaced by[dʒ]. SeeBengali phonology | |
| Breton | iliz | [iliz] | 'church' | ||
| Chechen | зурма /zurma | [zuɾma] | 'music' | ||
| Emilian | Bolognese | raṡån | [raːz̺ʌŋ] | 'reason' | Palatalized apical; may be[ʐ] or[ʒ] instead. |
| English | zoo | [zuː]ⓘ | 'zoo' | Absent from some Scottish and Asian dialects. SeeEnglish phonology | |
| Esperanto | kuzo | [ˈkuzo] | 'cousin' | SeeEsperanto phonology | |
| Georgian[28] | ზარი[romanization needed] | [ˈzɑɾi] | 'bell' | ||
| Greek | Athens dialect[29] | ζάλη /záli | [ˈz̻ali] | 'dizziness' | SeeModern Greek phonology |
| Hebrew | זאב[romanization needed] | [zeˈʔev] | 'wolf' | SeeModern Hebrew phonology | |
| Hindustani | Hindi | ज़मीन[romanization needed] | [zəmiːn] | 'land' | May be replaced in Hindi by[dʒ]. SeeHindustani phonology |
| Urdu | زمین | ||||
| Japanese[30] | 全部 /zenbu | [zembɯ] | 'everything' | Might be replaced with[dz]. SeeJapanese phonology | |
| Kabardian | зы[romanization needed] | [ˈzə]ⓘ | 'one' | ||
| Kalaw Lagaw Ya | zilamiz | [zilʌmiz] | 'go' | ||
| Kashmiri | ज़ानुन /زانُن[romanization needed] | [zaːnun] | 'to know' | ||
| Khmer | បែលហ្ស៊ិក /bêlhsĭk | [ɓaelzɨk] | noun: 'Belgium', 'Belgian(s)' adjective: 'Belgian' | SeeKhmer phonology | |
| Konda[31][32] | sunz | [sunz] | 'to sleep' | ||
| Malay | beza | [bezə] | 'difference' | ||
| Maltese | żelu | [zelu] | 'zeal' | ||
| Marathi | जर[romanization needed] | [zər] | 'if' | SeeMarathi phonology. | |
| Nepali | हजार[romanization needed] | [ɦʌzäɾ] | 'thousand' | Coda and intervocalic allophone of/d͡z/ and/d͡zʱ/.[33] | |
| कागज[romanization needed] | [käɣʌz] | 'paper' | |||
| बुझाउनु[romanization needed] | [buzäu̯nu] | 'to explain' | |||
| माझ[romanization needed] | [mäz] | 'middle' | |||
| Occitan | Limousin | jòune | [ˈzɒwne] | 'young' | SeeOccitan phonology |
| Persian | روز | [ɾuːz] | 'day' | ||
| Portuguese[34] | casa | [ˈkazɐ] | 'house' | SeePortuguese phonology | |
| Punjabi | Gurmukhi | ਹਜ਼ਾਰ[romanization needed] | [həˈzaːr] | 'thousand' | May be replaced by[dʒ] inGurmukhi (Indian) varieties. |
| Shahmukhi | ہزار[romanization needed] | ||||
| Spanish | Andalusian | comunismo | [ko̞muˈnizmo̞] | 'communism' | Allophone of/s/ before voiced consonants, when it is notdebuccalized to[h~ɦ]. Present in dialects which realize/s/ as a non-retracted alveolar fricative. Before/d/ it is dental[z̪]. |
| Latin American | |||||
| Filipino | |||||
| Swahili | lazima | [lɑzimɑ] | 'must' | ||
| Tamil | Jaffna Tamil | கடுதாசி[romanization needed] | [kɐɖuðaːzi] | 'letter' | Was only reported for 1 speaker in the sample but he pronounced it regularly.[35] |
| West Frisian[36] | sizze | [ˈsɪzə] | 'to say' | It never occurs in word-initial positions. SeeWest Frisian phonology | |
| Yi | ꍂ /ssy | [zɹ̩˧] | 'generation' | ||
| Yiddish | זון /zien | [zin] | 'son' | ||
| Zapotec | Tilquiapan[37] | guanaz | [ɡʷanaz] | 'went to grab' | |
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalan[38][39] | zel | [ˈz̺ɛɫ] | 'zeal' | Apical. SeeCatalan phonology | |
| Galician | mesmo | [ˈme̞z̺mo̞] | 'same' | Apical. Allophone of/s/ before voiced consonants. Before/d/ it is pronounced dentally[z̪]. | |
| Greek[40] | μάζα /máza | [ˈmɐz̠ɐ] | 'mass' | SeeModern Greek phonology | |
| Italian | Central Italy[41] | caso | [ˈkäːz̠o] | 'case' | Present inLazio north of Cape Linaro,[41] most ofUmbria[41] (savePerugia and the extreme south)[41] andLe Marche south of thePotenza.[41] |
| Northern Italy[42][43] | Apical.[44] Present in many areas north of theLa Spezia–Rimini Line.[45][46] SeeItalian phonology | ||||
| Sicily[41] | Present south and west of a line drawn fromSyracuse toCefalù.[41] | ||||
| Low German[47] | [example needed] | ||||
| Maldivian | zaraafaa | [z̺aˈraːfaː] | 'giraffe' | ||
| Mirandese | eisistir | [e̞jz̺is̺ˈtiɾ] | 'to exist' | Apical. Mirandese and neighboring Portuguese dialects were the only surviving oral tradition to preserve all seven mediaevalIbero-Romance sibilants:⟨ch⟩/tʃ/,⟨x⟩/ʃ/,⟨g⟩/⟨j⟩/ʒ/,⟨c⟩/⟨ç⟩/s̪/,⟨z⟩/z̪/,⟨s⟩/-⟨ss⟩-/s̺/, -⟨s⟩-/z̺/ | |
| Occitan | Gascon | casèrna | [kaz̺ɛrno] | 'barracks' | SeeOccitan phonology |
| Languedocien | véser | [bez̺e] | 'to see' | ||
| Piedmontese | amis | [aˈmiz̠] | 'friend' | Apical. SeePiemontese phonology | |
| Portuguese | Coastal NorthernEuropean | [example needed] | Merges with non-retracted/z/. SeePortuguese phonology | ||
| Inland NorthernEuropean | [example needed] | Apical. Contrasts with non-retracted/z/. SeePortuguese phonology | |||
| Spanish | Andean | mismo | [ˈmiz̺mo̞] | 'same' | Apical. Allophone of/s/ before voiced consonants. Before/d/ it is pronounced dentally[z̪]. SeeSpanish phonology |
| Castilian | |||||
| Paisa Region | |||||
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German | Standard[48] | sauber | [ˈzäʊ̯bɐ] | 'clean' | Varies between dentalized laminal, non-retracted laminal and non-retracted apical.[48] SeeStandard German phonology |
| Italian | Standard[49] | caso | [ˈkäːzo] | 'case' | Varies between dentalized laminal and non-retracted apical.[49] SeeItalian phonology |
| Ticino[44] | Varies between dentalized laminal and non-retracted apical.[50] Both variants may be labiodentalized.[44] SeeItalian phonology | ||||
| Dutch | Belgian Standard[51] | zeep | [zeːpʰ]ⓘ | 'soap' | Laminal.[51] SeeDutch phonology |
| Northern Standard[52][53] | [zeɪ̯pʰ]ⓘ | Laminal; may have only mid-to-low pitched friction. If not the main allophone, it is oftenretracted when preconsonantal, after rounded vowels and/r/.[52] SeeDutch phonology | |||
| zat | [ˈz̠ɑtʰ]ⓘ | 'full', 'fed (up)' | |||
| Voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative | |
|---|---|
| ð̠ | |
| ɹ̝ | |
| Audio sample | |
| Encoding | |
| Entity(decimal) | ð̠ |
| Unicode(hex) | U+00F0 U+0320 |
Avoiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative is a consonantal sound. As theInternational Phonetic Alphabet does not have separate symbols for the alveolar consonants (the same symbol is used for allcoronal places of articulation that are notpalatalized), it can represent the sound as in a number of ways including ⟨ð̠⟩ and ⟨ɹ̝⟩.
A few languages also have avoiced alveolar tapped fricative, which is simply a very brief apical alveolar non-sibilant fricative, with the tongue making the gesture for a tapped stop but not making full contact. It can be indicated in the IPA with the lowering diacritic to show that full occlusion does not occur, such as ⟨ɾ̞⟩. Flapped fricatives are theoretically possible but are not attested.[54]
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aragonese | Chistabino[55] | aire | [ˈäi̯ɾ̞e̞] | 'air' | Tapped; common realization of/ɾ/.[55] |
| Czech[56] | čtyři | [ˈt͡ʃtɪɹ̝ɪ] | 'four' | May be africative trill[56] or atap fricative instead.[57] It contrasts with/r/ and/ʒ/. SeeCzech phonology | |
| Dahalo[58] | [káð̠i] | 'work' | Apical; only weakly fricated. It is a common intervocalic allophone of/d̠/, and may be an approximant[ð̠˕] or simply a plosive[d] instead.[59] | ||
| Dutch[60] | voor | [vöːɹ̝] | 'for' | One of many possible realizations of/r/; distribution unclear. SeeDutch phonology | |
| Emilian | Bolognese | chèṡ | [ˈkɛːð̠] | 'case' | Laminal |
| English | Scouse[61] | maid | [meɪð̠] | 'maid' | Allophone of/d/. SeeEnglish phonology |
| South African[62][63] | round | [ɹ̝æʊ̯nd] | 'round' | Apical,[63] present in some urban dialects.[62] SeeSouth African English phonology | |
| Icelandic[64][65] | góða | [ˈko̞ˑu̯ˑð̠ä]ⓘ | 'good (inflexion)' | Usually apical,[64][65] may be closer to anapproximant. SeeIcelandic phonology | |
| Italian | Sicily[66] | terra | [ˈt̪ɛɹ̝ä] | 'earth' | Apical; corresponds to/rr/ in standard Italian.[66] SeeItalian phonology |
| Manx[67] | mooar | [muːɹ̝] | 'big' | Pre-consonantal and word-final realization of/r/, infree variation with other allophones. | |
| Spanish[68] | Aragonese | aire | [ˈäi̯ɾ̞e̞] | 'air' | Tapped; possible realization of/ɾ/.[68] SeeSpanish phonology |
| Sicilian[66] | terrorismo | [t̪ʰiɜ̯ɹ̝uˈɾ̞ʷisɪmʊ]ⓘ | 'terrorism' | Apical; corresponds to/rr/ in standard Italian.[66] | |
| Swedish | Central Standard[69][70] | vandrare | [²vän̪ːd̪ɹ̝äɹɛ] | 'wanderer' | Allophone of/r/ around the Stockholm area. SeeSwedish phonology |
| Tacana[71] | [example needed] | Tapped.[71] | |||
| Turkish[72] | rüya | [ˈɾ̞yːjɑ] | 'dream' | Tapped; word-initial allophone of/ɾ/.[72] SeeTurkish phonology | |
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