Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative
| Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ʑ | |||
| IPA Number | 183 | ||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ʑ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0291 | ||
| X-SAMPA | z\ | ||
| Braille |   | ||
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The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʑ⟩ ("z", plus the curl also found in its voiceless counterpart ⟨ɕ⟩), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is z\. It is the sibilant equivalent of the voiced palatal fricative.
The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative does not occur in any major dialect of English. However, it is the usual realization of /ʒ/ (as in vision) in the Ghanaian variety.[1]
Features
Features of the voiced alveolo-palatal fricative:
- Its manner of articulation is sibilant fricative, which means it is generally produced by channeling air flow along a groove in the back of the tongue up to the place of articulation, at which point it is focused against the sharp edge of the nearly clenched teeth, causing high-frequency turbulence.
- Its place of articulation is alveolo-palatal. This means that:
- Its place of articulation is postalveolar, meaning that the tongue contacts the roof of the mouth in the area behind the alveolar ridge (the gum line).
- Its tongue shape is laminal, meaning that it is the tongue blade that contacts the roof of the mouth.
- It is heavily palatalized, meaning that the middle of the tongue is bowed and raised towards the hard palate.
- Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | [[[Cyrillic script|ажьа]]] Error: {{Lang}}: script: cyrl not supported for code: ab (help) | [aˈʑa] | 'hare' | See Abkhaz phonology | |
| Adyghe | жьау | [ʑaːw] | 'shadow' | ||
| Catalan | Eastern and Majorcan[2] | [[[Catalan orthography|ajut]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [əˈʑut] | 'help' (n.) | See Catalan phonology |
| Chinese | Jiangshan dialect of Wu | 十 | [ʑyœʔ] | 'ten' | |
| Southern Min | 今仔日/[[[Pe̍h-ōe-jī|kin-á-ji̍t]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [kɪn˧a˥ʑɪt˥] | 'today' | ||
| English | Ghanaian[1] | [[[English orthography|vision]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [ˈviʑin] | 'vision' | Educated speakers may use [ʒ], to which this phone corresponds in other dialects.[1] |
| Japanese | 火事/[[[Romanization of Japanese|kaji]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [kaʑi] | 'fire' | Found in free variation with [d͡ʑ] between vowels. See Japanese phonology | |
| Kabardian | жьэ | [ʑa] | 'mouth' | ||
| Luxembourgish[3] | [héijen] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [ˈhəi̯ʑɵ̞n] | 'high' | Allophone of /ʁ/ after phonologically front vowels; some speakers merge it with [ʒ]. Occurs only in a few words.[3] See Luxembourgish phonology | |
| Pashto | Wazirwola dialect | ميږ | [miʑ] | 'we' | |
| Polish[4] | [[[Polish alphabet|źrebię]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | 'foal' | Also denoted by the digraph ⟨zi⟩. See Polish phonology | ||
| Portuguese[5][6][7] | [[[Portuguese orthography|magia]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [maˈʑi.ɐ] | 'magic' | Also described as palato-alveolar [ʒ].[8][9] See Portuguese phonology | |
| Romanian | Transylvanian dialects[10] | [[[Romanian alphabet|geană]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [ʑanə][stress?] | 'eyelash' | Realized as [d͡ʒ] in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology |
| Russian | Conservative Moscow Standard[11] | езжу | [ˈjeʑːʊ] | 'I drive' | Somewhat obsolete; most speakers realize it as hard [ʐː].[11] Present only in a few words, usually written ⟨жж⟩ or ⟨зж⟩. See Russian phonology |
| Sema[12][13] | [aji] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [à̠ʑì] | 'blood' | Possible allophone of /ʒ/ before /i, e/; can be realized as [d͡ʑ ~ ʒ ~ d͡ʒ] instead.[13] | |
| Serbo-Croatian | Croatian[14] | пуж ħе / [[[Gaj's Latin alphabet|puž će]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [pûːʑ t͡ɕe̞] | 'the snail will' | Allophone of /ʒ/ before /t͡ɕ, d͡ʑ/.[14] See Serbo-Croatian phonology |
| Sorbian | Lower[15] | źasety | [ʑäs̪ɛt̪ɨ][stress?] | 'tenth' | |
| Uzbek[16] | [example needed] | ||||
| Xumi | Upper[17] | [Hʑɜ] | 'beer, wine' | ||
| Yi | ꑳ/[[[Yi script|yi]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | [ʑi˧] | 'tobacco' | ||
See also
References
- ^ a b c Huber (2004:859)
- ^ Recasens & Espinosa (2007:145, 167)
- ^ a b Gilles & Trouvain (2013), pp. 67–68.
- ^ Jassem (2003:103)
- ^ Mateus & d'Andrade (2000)
- ^ Silva (2003:32)
- ^ Guimarães (2004)
- ^ Cruz-Ferreira (1995:91)
- ^ Medina (2010)
- ^ Pop (1938), p. 30.
- ^ a b Yanushevskaya & Bunčić (2015:224)
- ^ Teo (2012:368)
- ^ a b Teo (2014:23)
- ^ a b Landau et al. (1999:68)
- ^ Zygis (2003:180–181)
- ^ Sjoberg (1963:11)
- ^ Chirkova, Chen & Kocjančič Antolík (2013:383)
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