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Voiced postalveolar fricative
The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is <ʒ>, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is Z. An alternative symbol used in some older and American linguistic literature is <ž>, a z with a háček. The sound occurs in many languages and, as in English and French, may have simultaneous lip rounding ([ʒʷ]), although this is rarely indicated in transcription.

Features

Features of the voiced postalveolar fricative:

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Albanian zhurmë [ʒuːɾmə] 'noise'
Angas zhaam [ʒaːm] 'chin'
Arabic Maghrebi زوج [ʒuʒ] 'two' See Arabic phonology
Armenian ժամ [ʒam] 'hour'
Avar жакъа [ˈʒaqʼːa] 'today'
Azerbaijani pəjmürdə [pæʒmyrˈdæ] 'sad'
Belarusian жaбa [ʒaba] 'toad' See Belarusian phonology
Berta [ŋɔ̀nʒɔ̀ʔ] 'honey'
Bosnian svjež [svjɛʒ] 'fresh'
Bulgarian мъжът [mɤˈʒɤt] 'the man' See Bulgarian phonology
Chechen ?/ƶiy [ʒiː] 'sheep'
Croatian žut [ʒut] 'yellow'
Czech muži [muʒi] 'men' See Czech phonology
Dutch garage [xaraʒə] 'garage' See Dutch phonology
English vision [ˈvɪʒən] 'vision' See English phonology
Esperanto manĝaĵo [maɳdʒaʒo] 'food' See Esperanto phonology
French alliage [aljaʒ] 'alloy' See French phonology
German Garage [ɡaˈʁaːʒə] 'garage' See German phonology
Georgian ჟურნალი [ʒuɾnali] 'magazine'
Goemai zhiem [ʒiem] 'sickle'
Gwich’in zhòh [ʒôh] 'wolf'
Hän zhùr [ʒûr] 'wolf'
Hebrew ז'קט [ʒaket] 'jacket ' See Hebrew phonology
Hungarian rózsa [r̪oːʒɒ] 'rose' See Hungarian phonology
Ingush жий/žii [ʒiː] 'sheep'
Italian Tuscan dialect pigiare [piʒare] 'press' See Italian phonology
Juǀʼhoan [ʒu] 'person'
Kabardian жыг [ʒɪɣʲ] 'tree'
Kabyle jeddi [ʒəddi] 'my grandfather'
Kazakh жетті [ʒet̪t̪i] 'seven'
Ladino mujer [muʒɛʀ] 'woman'
Latvian žāvēt [ʒaːveːt] 'smoke'
Lithuanian žmona [ʒmoːna] 'wife'
Livonian kūž [kuːʒ] 'six'
Macedonian жaбa [ʒaba] 'toad'
Megrelian ჟირი 'two'
Navajo łizh [ɬiʒ] 'urine'
Ngwe Mmockngie dialect [ʒíá] 'to split'
Occitan Southern Auvergnat argent [aʀʒẽ] 'money'
Gascon argent [arʒen] 'money'
Pashto ? [ʒowul] 'chew'
Persian مژه [moʒːe] 'eyelash' See Persian phonology
Portuguese jogo [ˈʒogu] 'game' See Portuguese phonology
Romanian jar [ʒar] 'embers' See Romanian phonology
Serbian жут/žut [ʒut] 'yellow'
Sioux Lakota waŋži [wãˈʒi] 'one'
Slovak muži [muʒi] 'men'
Slovenian žito [ʒito] 'cereal'
Spanish Some South American dialects yo [ʒo̞] 'I' See Spanish phonology and yeismo
Tagish [ʒé] 'what'
Tadaksahak [ˈʒɐwɐb] 'to answer'
Turkish jale [ʒale] 'dew' See Turkish phonology
Turkmen žiraf [ʒiraf] 'giraffe'
Tutchone Northern zhi [ʒi] 'what'
Southern zhǜr [ʒɨ̂r] 'berry'
Ukrainian жaбa [ʒaba] 'frog' See Ukrainian phonology
Veps vīž [viːʒ] 'five'
Welayta [aʒa] 'bush'
Yiddish אָראַנזש [ɔʀanʒ] 'orange' See Yiddish phonology

The sound in Russian denoted by <ж> is commonly transcribed as a postalveolar fricative but is actually a laminal retroflex fricative.

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