| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
|---|
| Abkhaz | аџыр | [ad͡ʒər] | 'steel' | SeeAbkhaz phonology |
| Adyghe | джанэ | [d͡ʒaːna]ⓘ | 'dress' | |
| Albanian | xham | [d͡ʒam] | 'glass' | |
| Amharic | እንጀራ | [ɨnd͡ʒəra] | 'injera' | |
| Arabic | Modern Standard[1] | جَـرَس | [d͡ʒaras] | 'bell' | In other standards and dialects, corresponds to[ɡ] or[ʒ]. SeeArabic phonology |
| Hejazi | جــيب/jēb | [d͡ʒe̞ːb] | 'pocket' | Pronounced[ʒ] by some speakers. SeeHejazi Arabic phonology |
| Armenian | Eastern[2] | ջուր | [d͡ʒuɾ] | 'water' | |
| Western | ճանճ | [d͡ʒɑnd͡ʒ] | 'musca (fly)' | |
| Assyrian | ܓ̰ܝܪܐ s | [d͡ʒjɑɾɑ] | 'to pee' | Used in native terminology. Used predominantly inUrmia and someJilu dialects.[ɟ] is used in other varieties. |
| Azerbaijani | can | [d͡ʒɑn] | 'soul' | |
| Bengali | জল | [d͡ʒɔl] | 'water' | Contrasts with the aspirated form. SeeBengali phonology |
| Bulgarian | джудже | [d͡ʒʊˈd͡ʒɛ] | 'dwarf' | SeeBulgarian phonology |
| Catalan | jutge | [ˈʒu(d).d͡ʒə] | 'judge' | SeeCatalan phonology |
| Chechen | джерво /jyerwo | [d͡ʒjerwo] | 'previously married woman' | |
| Chinese | Quzhou dialect | 重 /zon | [d͡ʒõ] | 'heavy' | |
| Coptic | ϫⲉ/je | [d͡ʒe] | 'that' | |
| Czech | džbán | [d͡ʒbaːn] | 'jug' | SeeCzech phonology |
| Dhivehi | ޖަރާސީމު /jarásímu | [d͡ʒaraːsiːmu] | 'germs' | SeeDhivehi phonology |
| Dutch | jeans | [d͡ʒiːns] | 'jeans' | Some say [ʒiːns]. Occurs mainly in loanwords. |
| English | jeans | [ˈd͡ʒiːnz] | 'jeans' | SeeEnglish phonology |
| Esperanto | manĝaĵo | [manˈd͡ʒaʒo̞] | 'food' | SeeEsperanto phonology |
| Estonian | džäss | [ˈd̥ʒæsː] | 'jazz' | Rare, occurs only in loanwords. SeeEstonian phonology |
| Finnish | džonkki | [ˈdʒo̞ŋkːi] | 'junk (ship)' | Rare, occurs only in loanwords. SeeFinnish phonology |
| French | adjonction | [ad͡ʒɔ̃ksjɔ̃] | 'addition' | Rare. Also occurs in loanwords. SeeFrench phonology |
| Georgian[3] | ჯიბე/jibe | [d͡ʒibɛ] | 'pocket' | |
| German | Standard[4] | Dschungel | [ˈd͡ʒʊŋəl] | 'jungle' | Laminal or apico-laminal and strongly labialized.[4] Some speakers may merge it with/t͡ʃ/. Occurs mainly in loanwords. SeeStandard German phonology |
| Goemai | [example needed] | [d͡ʒaːn] | 'twins' | |
| Hebrew | Standard | ג׳וק/juk | [d͡ʒuk] | 'cockroach' | Only used in loanwords. SeeModern Hebrew phonology |
| Temani | גָּדוֹל/jaďol | [d͡ʒaðol] | 'big, great' | Yemenite Hebrew pronunciation ofgimel withdageš. SeeYemenite Hebrew |
| Hindustani | Hindi | जाना/jānā | [d͡ʒäːnäː] | 'to go' | Contrasts with aspirated form. SeeHindustani phonology |
| Urdu | جـانا/jānā |
| Hungarian | lándzsa | [laːnd͡ʒɒ] | 'spear' | Rare, mostly in loanwords. SeeHungarian phonology |
| Indonesian | jarak | [ˈd͡ʒaraʔ] | 'distance' | |
| Italian[5] | gemma | [ˈd͡ʒɛmma] | 'gem' | [dʒ] occurs when letter 'G' is before front vowels[e],[i] and[ɛ], while when 'G' is in front of vowels[o],[a],[u] and[ɔ] the phoneme changes to avoiced velar plosive. |
| Kabyle | lǧiran | [id͡ʒiræn] | 'the neighbors' | |
| Kashubian[6] | dłudżi | [ˈdwu.d͡ʒi] | 'long' | |
| Kurdish | Northern | cîger | [d͡ʒiːˈɡɛɾ] | 'lung' | SeeKurdish phonology |
| Central | جــەرگ | [d͡ʒɛɾg] | 'liver' |
| Southern | [d͡ʒæɾg] |
| Kyrgyz | жаман /caman | [d͡ʒaman] | 'bad' | SeeKyrgyz phonology |
| Ladino | djudyó/גﬞודיו | [d͡ʒudˈjo] | 'Jew' |
| Latvian | dadži | [dad͡ʒi] | 'thistles' | SeeLatvian phonology |
| Limburgish | Hasselt dialect[7] | djèn | [d͡ʒɛːn²] | 'Eugene' | SeeHasselt dialect phonology |
| Lithuanian | džiaugsmingas | [d͡ʒɛʊɡʲsʲˈmʲɪnɡɐs] | 'gladsome' | SeeLithuanian phonology |
| Macedonian | џемпер/džemper | [ˈd͡ʒɛmpɛr] | 'sweater' | SeeMacedonian phonology |
| Malay | jahat | [d͡ʒahat] | 'evil' | |
| Maltese | ġabra | [d͡ʒab.ra] | 'collection' | |
| Manchu | ᠵᡠᠸᡝ/juwe | [d͡ʒuwe] | 'two' | |
| Marathi | जय/jay | [d͡ʒəj] | 'victory' | Contrasts with the aspirated form. Allophone[dʑ] and[d̪z]. SeeMarathi phonology |
| Occitan | Languedocien | jove | [ˈd͡ʒuβe] | 'young' | SeeOccitan phonology |
| Provençal | [ˈd͡ʒuve] |
| Odia | ଜମି/jami | [d͡ʒɔmi] | 'land' | Contrasts with aspirated form.SeeOdia phonology |
| Ojibwe | iijikiwenh | [iːd͡ʒikiwẽːʔ] | 'brother' | SeeOjibwe phonology |
| Pashto | جــګ/jeg | [d͡ʒeɡ] | 'high' | |
| Persian | کـجـا/koja | [kod͡ʒɒ] | 'where' | SeePersian phonology |
| Polish | Standard | liczba | [ˈlid͡ʐ.ba] | 'number' | |
| Gmina Istebna | dziwny | [ˈd͡ʒivn̪ɘ] | 'strange' | /ɖ͡ʐ/ and/d͡ʑ/ merge into[d͡ʒ] in these dialects. In standard Polish,/d͡ʒ/ is commonly used to transcribe what actually is a laminalvoiced retroflex affricate. |
| Lubawa dialect[8] |
| Malbork dialect[8] |
| Ostróda dialect[8] |
| Warmia dialect[8] |
| Portuguese | MostBrazilian dialects[9] | grande | [ˈɡɾɐ̃d͡ʒ(i)] | 'big' | Allophone of/d/ before/i,ĩ/ (including when the vowel is elided) and other instances of[i] (e.g.epenthesis), marginal sound otherwise. |
| Most dialects | jambalaya | [d͡ʒɐ̃bɐˈlajɐ] | 'jambalaya' | In free variation with/ʒ/ in a few recent loanwords. SeePortuguese phonology |
| Romanian | ger | [ˈd͡ʒɛ̝r] | 'frost' | SeeRomanian phonology |
| Sardinian | Campidanese | géneru | [ˈd͡ʒɛneru] | 'son-in-law' | |
| Scottish Gaelic | Dia | [d͡ʒia] | 'God' | SeeScottish Gaelic phonology |
| Serbo-Croatian | Some speakers | џем /džem | [d͡ʒê̞m] | 'jam' | May belaminal retroflex instead, depending on the dialect. SeeSerbo-Croatian phonology |
| Bosnian | ђаво /đavo | [d͡ʒâ̠ʋo̞ː] | 'devil' | Most Croatian and some Bosnian speakers merge/d͡ʒ/ and/d͡ʑ/, either to[d͡ʒ] or laminal[ɖ͡ʐ]. |
| Croatian |
| Silesian | Gmina Istebna[10] | [example needed] | | | These dialects merge/ɖ͡ʐ/ and/d͡ʑ/ into[d͡ʒ]. |
| Jablunkov[10] | [example needed] | | |
| Slovene | enačba | [eˈnáːd͡ʒbà] | 'equation' | Allophone of/t͡ʃ/ before voiced obstruents in native words. As a phoneme present only in loanwords. SeeSlovene phonology |
| Somali | joog | [d͡ʒoːɡ] | 'stop' | SeeSomali phonology |
| Spanish | conllevar | [kondʒeˈβaɾ] | 'carry' | Rare, more commonly [ʝ, ɟʝ, ʒ]. SeeSpanish phonology,Yeísmo.[11] |
| Tagalog | diyan | [d͡ʒän] | 'there' | Used to pronounce the multigraphs⟨dy⟩ and⟨diy⟩ in native words and⟨j⟩ in loanwords outside Spanish. For more information, seeTagalog phonology. |
| Tamil | இஞ்சி | [in̠ʲd͡ʒi] | 'ginger' | Allophone of /t͡ʃ/ after /ɲ/ natively, also occurs elsewhere in loans but the standard form tends to make it /s, t͡ʃ/ elsewhere. SeeTamil phonology. |
| Tatar | Mishar Dialect[12] | can /җан | [d͡ʒɑn] | 'soul' | In standard Tatar (Kazan dialect), the sound for letter <c/җ> is [ʑ]. |
| Turkish | acı | [äˈd͡ʒɯ] | 'pain' | SeeTurkish phonology |
| Turkmen | jar | [d͡ʒär] | 'ravine' | |
| Tyap | jem | [d͡ʒem] | 'hippopotamus' | |
| Ubykh | amcan /[amd͡ʒan] | '?' | SeeUbykh phonology |
| Ukrainian[13] | джерело/džerelo | [d͡ʒɛrɛˈlɔ] | 'source' | SeeUkrainian phonology |
| Uyghur | coza /جوزا | [d͡ʒozɑ] | 'desk' | SeeUyghur phonology |
| Uzbek | jahon /жаҳон | [d͡ʒaˈhɒn] | 'world' |
| Welsh | siopjips | [ʃɔpd͡ʒɪps] | 'chip shop' | Occurs as the colloquial soft mutation of/t͡ʃ/. SeeColloquial Welsh morphology |
| West Frisian | siedzje | [ˈʃɪd͡ʒə] | 'to sow' | SeeWest Frisian phonology |
| Yiddish | דזשוכע/juche | [d͡ʒʊxə] | 'insect' | SeeYiddish phonology |
| Zapotec | Tilquiapan[14] | dxan | [d͡ʒaŋ] | 'god' | |