The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are ⟨d͡ʑ⟩, ⟨d͜ʑ⟩, ⟨ɟ͡ʑ⟩ and ⟨ɟ͜ʑ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are and , though transcribing the stop component with ⟨ɟ⟩ ( in X-SAMPA) is rare. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨dʑ⟩ or ⟨ɟʑ⟩ in the IPA and or in X-SAMPA. This affricate has a dedicated symbol, which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Neither nor is a completely narrow transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as (retracted and palatalized ), or (both symbols denote an advanced ). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are or and , respectively. There is also a dedicated symbol ⟨ȡ⟩, which is not a part of the IPA. Therefore, narrow transcriptions of the voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate include, , and. It is the sibilant equivalent of voiced palatal affricate.

Features

Features of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate:

Occurrence