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Voiced retroflex affricate

Consonantal sound

Summary

Consonantal sound

Field	Value
ipa number	106 (137)
ipa symbol	ɖʐ
ipa symbol3	ꭦ
ipa symbol2	dʐ
decimal1	598
decimal2	865
decimal3	656
imagefile	IPA Unicode 0xAB66.svg
x-sampa	dz`

| x-sampa = dz`

A voiced retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is or , often simplified to . There is also a ligature , which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used.

A laminal variant occurs in Polish dż, and apical variants in the Indo-Aryan languages.

Features

Features of a voiced retroflex affricate:

Occurrence

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Asturian	Some dialects	ḷḷuna	['ɖ͡ʐunä]	'moon'
Belarusian	джаз		'jazz'	Laminal. See Belarusian phonology
Chinese	Wu	长		'to grow'
Some Mandarin speakers	广州		'Guangzhou'
Khowar	ݮـنـݮـیر		'chain'		-
Polish	Standard	dżin		'genie'
Southeastern Cuyavian dialects	dzwon		'bell'	Some speakers. It's a result of hypercorrecting the more popular merger of and into .
Suwałki dialect
Northern Qiang	vvdhe		'star'
Serbo-Croatian	џеп/džep		'pocket'	Apical. It may be palato-alveolar instead, depending on the dialect. See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Slovak	džús		'juice'	Laminal.
Torwali	حؕـىگ		'long'	Contrasts with a palatal affricate.
Yi	ꎐ / ii		'tooth'

Voiced retroflex non-sibilant affricate

The non-sibilant counterpart is a voiced retroflex non-sibilant affricate, which may occur in Malagasy. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , , , or .

Features

Occurrence

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Malagasy	andriana		'nobility'	Also described as regular plosives, trilled affricates and sibilant affricates.

Notes

References

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References

Farid Ahmad Raza Booni Chitral. "Preliminary Grapheme to Phoneme Khowar Alphabet Chart".
{{Harvcoltxt. Jassem. 2003
{{Harvcoltxt. Hamann. 2004
"Gwary polskie - Gwara regionu".
"Gwary polskie - Szadzenie".
{{Harvcoltxt. Hanulíková. Hamann. 2010
{{Harvcoltxt. Lunsford. 2001
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