Voiced retroflex fricative

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The voiced retroflex 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 ⟨ʐ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of a z (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant).

Features

Features of the voiced retroflex sibilant:

Occurrence

In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical and laminal. The commonality of cross-linguistically is 2% in a phonological analysis of 2155 languages.

Voiced retroflex non-sibilant fricative

Features

Features of the voiced retroflex non-sibilant fricative:

Occurrence

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