A voiced palatal implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . Typographically, the IPA symbol is a dotless lowercase letter j with a horizontal stroke that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter f (the symbol for the voiced palatal stop) and a rightward hook (the diacritic for implosives). A very similar-looking letter, (an with a tail), is used in Ewe for .
Features Features of a voiced palatal implosive:
Occurrence Palatal Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Fula jetugol 'to take' Konsojapjap ‘to rot/decay completely’ Serer 'to have ringworm' Written as in the Arabic script and as in Latin script. Contrasts /ɓ̥, ɗ̥, ʄ̊, ɓ, ɗ, ʄ/.SomaliMaay Maay Swahili 'yesterday' In free variation with /dʒ/ Saraiki ڄاݨݨ 'know' Sindhi ڄِڀَ 'tongue' Tunni 'to stay' Wu Fengxian (cia1) 'domestic' literary reading
Post-palatal
There is also a voiced post-palatal (or pre-velar) implosive. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for this sound, but it can be transcribed as / or /.
Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Ndebele Northern The source mentions it, which will be here: "The voiced velar implosive phoneme [ɠ] (written as k in the normal orthography as for instance in (7) below) which occurs in no other Nguni language than in Northern Ndebele. It is not known when and where Northern Ndebele has acquired this sound which occurs as a velar implosive before the back vowels /u/, /o/ and /a/ respectively and as a " sisibekelo 'lid' Velar before back vowels; 'pre-velar' before front vowels.
See also List of phonetics topics Voiceless palatal implosive
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