A 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 (, plus the curl also found in its voiceless counterpart ). It is the sibilant equivalent of the voiced palatal fricative.

Features

Features of a voiced alveolo-palatal fricative:

Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Abkhaz 'hare' See Abkhaz phonology Adyghe 'shadow' Catalan Many dialects 'help' (n.) See Catalan phonology Most dialects 'blue fish' Allophone of (phonetically ). See Catalan phonology Chinese Jiangshan 十 'ten' Taiwanese Hokkien / 'today' Czech 'life' See Czech phonology English Ghana vision 'vision' Educated speakers may use , which this phoneme corresponds to in other dialects. Japanese / 'fire' Found in free variation with between vowels. See Japanese phonology Kabardian 'mouth' Lower Sorbian źasety 'tenth' Luxembourgish 'high' Allophone of after phonologically front vowels; some speakers merge it with . Occurs in only a few words. See Luxembourgish phonology Pa Na 'small' Polish 'foal' Also denoted by the digraph . See Polish phonology Portuguese 'magic' Also described as palato-alveolar . See Portuguese phonology Romani Kalderash 'he/she/it goes' Realized as in conservative dialects. Romanian Transylvanian dialects 'eyelash' Realized as in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology Russian Conservative Moscow Standard 'later' Somewhat obsolete in many words, in which most speakers realize it as hard . Present only in a few words, usually written or . See Russian phonology Slovak Eastern slovak dialects 'winter' Sometimes it is considered only as allophone of the phoneme /z/ before front vowels (i, e). See Slovak phonology. Sema 'blood' Possible allophone of before ; can be realized as instead. Serbo-Croatian Serbian and Croatian 'the snail will' Allophone of before . See Serbo-Croatian phonology Some speakers of Montenegrin / 'pupil' Phonemically or, in some cases, . Spanish Paraguayan carro 'car' Non-standard, dialectal realization of and allophone of after .TatarKazan dialect (standard Tatar)җан / can[ʑan]'soul'In Mishar Dialect, letter җ / c is [d͡ʒ].Leitzinger, Antero: Mishäärit – Suomen vanha islamilainen yhteisö. Helsinki: Kirja-Leitzinger, 1996. . (p. 45) Uzbek Xumi Upper 'beer, wine' Yi / 'tobacco'

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