Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
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,, and, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are d_z\ and J\_z\, though transcribing the stop component with is rare. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding or in the IPA and dz\ or J\z\ in X-SAMPA.
Neither nor are a completely narrow transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as , or . The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are d_-' or d_-_j and J\_+, respectively. There is also a dedicated symbol, which is not a part of the IPA. Therefore, narrow transcriptions of the voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate include,, and.
This affricate used to have a dedicated symbol, which was one of the six dedicated symbols for affricates in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is the sibilant equivalent of voiced palatal affricate.Features
Features of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate:Occurrence
