Voiced postalveolar affricate
dʒ
ʤ
IPA Number104 135
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Encoding
Entity (decimal)d​͡​ʒ
Unicode (hex)U+0064 U+0361 U+0292
X-SAMPAdZ or d_rZ

The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨d͡ʒ⟩ (formerly the ligature ⟨ʤ⟩), or in some broad transcriptions ⟨ɟ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is dZ. This affricate has a dedicated symbol U+02A4 ʤ LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH, which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Alternatives commonly used in linguistic works, particularly in older or American literature, are ⟨ǰ⟩, ⟨ǧ⟩, ⟨ǯ⟩, and ⟨dž⟩. It is familiar to English speakers as the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in jump.

Features

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Features of the voiced postalveolar affricate:

Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Abkhaz аџыр/ajër [ad͡ʒər] 'steel' See Abkhaz phonology
Adyghe джанэ/jána [d͡ʒaːna]ⓘ 'dress'
Albanian xham [d͡ʒam] 'glass'
Amharic እንጀራ/ûnjera [ɨnd͡ʒəra] 'injera'
Arabic Modern Standard[1] جَـرَس/jaras [d͡ʒaras] 'bell' In other standards and dialects, corresponds to [ɡ] or [ʒ]. See Arabic phonology
Hejazi جــيب/jēb [d͡ʒe̞ːb] 'pocket' Pronounced [ʒ] by some speakers. See Hejazi Arabic phonology
Armenian Eastern[2] ջուր/jur [d͡ʒuɾ] 'water'
Western ճանճ/janj [d͡ʒɑnd͡ʒ] 'musca (fly)'
Assyrian ܓ̰ܝܪܐ jyara [d͡ʒjɑɾɑ] 'to pee' Used in native terminology. Used predominantly in Urmia and some Jilu dialects. [ɟ] is used in other varieties.
Azerbaijani can [d͡ʒɑn] 'soul'
Bengali জল/jol [d͡ʒɔl] 'water' Contrasts with the aspirated form. See Bengali phonology
Bulgarian джудже/džudže [d͡ʒʊˈd͡ʒɛ] 'dwarf' See Bulgarian phonology
Catalan jutge [ˈʒud͡ʒə] 'judge' See Catalan phonology
Chechen джерво / jyerwo [d͡ʒjerwo] 'previously married woman'
Chinese Quzhou dialect 重 / zon [d͡ʒõ] 'heavy'
Coptic ϫⲉ/je [d͡ʒe] 'that'
Czech džbán [d͡ʒbaːn] 'jug' See Czech phonology
Dhivehi ޖަރާސީމު / jarásímu [d͡ʒaraːsiːmu] 'germs' See Dhivehi phonology
Dutch jeans [d͡ʒiːns] 'jeans' Some say [ʒiːns]
English jeans [ˈd͡ʒiːnz] 'jeans' See English phonology
Esperanto manĝaĵo [manˈd͡ʒaʒo̞] 'food' See Esperanto phonology
Estonian džäss [ˈd̥ʒæsː] 'jazz' Rare, occurs only in loanwords. See Estonian phonology
Finnish džonkki [ˈdʒo̞ŋkːi] 'junk (ship)' Rare, occurs only in loanwords. See Finnish phonology
French adjonction [ad͡ʒɔ̃ksjɔ̃] 'addition' Rare. See French phonology
Georgian[3] ჯიბე/jibe [d͡ʒibɛ] 'pocket'
German Standard[4] Dschungel [ˈd͡ʒʊŋəl] 'jungle' Laminal or apico-laminal and strongly labialized.[4] Some speakers may merge it with /t͡ʃ/. See Standard German phonology
Goemai [example needed] [d͡ʒaːn] 'twins'
Hebrew Standard ג׳וק/juk [d͡ʒuk] 'cockroach' Only used in loanwords. See Modern Hebrew phonology
Temani גָּדוֹל‎/jaďol [d͡ʒaðol] 'big, great' Yemenite Hebrew pronunciation of gimel with dageš. See Yemenite Hebrew
Hindustani Hindi जाना/jānā [d͡ʒäːnäː] 'to go' Contrasts with aspirated form. See Hindustani phonology
Urdu جـانا/jānā
Hungarian lándzsa [laːnd͡ʒɒ] 'spear' Rare, mostly in loanwords. See Hungarian phonology
Indonesian jarak [ˈd͡ʒaraʔ] 'distance'
Italian[5] gemma [ˈd͡ʒɛmma] 'gem' [dʒ] occurs when letter 'G' is before front vowels [e], [i] and [ɛ], while when 'G' is in front of vowels [o], [a], [u] and [ɔ] the phoneme changes to a voiced velar plosive.
Kabyle lǧiran [id͡ʒiræn] 'the neighbors'
Kashubian[6] [example needed]
Kurdish Northern cîger [d͡ʒiːˈɡɛɾ] 'lung' See Kurdish phonology
Central جــەرگ [d͡ʒɛɾg] 'liver'
Southern [d͡ʒæɾg]
Kyrgyz жаман / caman [d͡ʒaman] 'bad' See Kyrgyz phonology
Ladino djudyó/גﬞודיו [d͡ʒudˈjo] 'Jew'
Latvian dadži [dad͡ʒi] 'thistles' See Latvian phonology
Limburgish Hasselt dialect[7] djèn [d͡ʒɛːn²] 'Eugene' See Hasselt dialect phonology
Lithuanian džiaugsmingas [d͡ʒɛʊɡʲsʲˈmʲɪnɡɐs] 'gladsome' See Lithuanian phonology
Macedonian џемпер/džemper [ˈd͡ʒɛmpɛr] 'sweater' See Macedonian phonology
Malay jahat [d͡ʒahat] 'evil'
Maltese ġabra [d͡ʒab.ra] 'collection'
Manchu ᠵᡠᠸᡝ/juwe [d͡ʒuwe] 'two'
Marathi जय/jay [d͡ʒəj] 'victory' Contrasts with the aspirated form. Allophone [dʑ] and [d̪z]. See Marathi phonology
Occitan Languedocien jove [ˈd͡ʒuβe] 'young' See Occitan phonology
Provençal [ˈd͡ʒuve]
Odia ଜମି/jami [d͡ʒɔmi] 'land' Contrasts with aspirated form.See Odia phonology
Ojibwe iijikiwenh [iːd͡ʒikiwẽːʔ] 'brother' See Ojibwe phonology
Pashto جــګ/jeg [d͡ʒeɡ] 'high'
Persian کـجـا/koja [kod͡ʒɒ] 'where' See Persian phonology
Polish Standard liczba [ˈlid͡ʐ.ba] 'number'
Gmina Istebna dziwny [ˈd͡ʒivn̪ɘ] 'strange' /ɖ͡ʐ/ and /d͡ʑ/ merge into [d͡ʒ] in these dialects. In standard Polish, /d͡ʒ/ is commonly used to transcribe what actually is a laminal voiced retroflex affricate.
Lubawa dialect[8]
Malbork dialect[8]
Ostróda dialect[8]
Warmia dialect[8]
Portuguese Most Brazilian dialects[9] grande [ˈɡɾɐ̃d͡ʒ(i)] 'big' Allophone of /d/ before /i, ĩ/ (including when the vowel is elided) and other instances of [i] (e.g. epenthesis), marginal sound otherwise.
Most dialects jambalaya [d͡ʒɐ̃bɐˈlajɐ] 'jambalaya' In free variation with /ʒ/ in a few recent loanwords. See Portuguese phonology
Romanian ger [ˈd͡ʒɛ̝r] 'frost' See Romanian phonology
Sardinian Campidanese géneru [ˈd͡ʒɛneru] 'son-in-law'
Scottish Gaelic Dia [d͡ʒia] 'God' See Scottish Gaelic phonology
Serbo-Croatian Some speakers џем / džem [d͡ʒê̞m] 'jam' May be laminal retroflex instead, depending on the dialect. See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Bosnian ђаво / đavo [d͡ʒâ̠ʋo̞ː] 'devil' Most Croatian and some Bosnian speakers merge /d͡ʒ/ and /d͡ʑ/, either to [d͡ʒ] or laminal [ɖ͡ʐ].
Croatian
Silesian Gmina Istebna[10] [example needed] These dialects merge /ɖ͡ʐ/ and /d͡ʑ/ into [d͡ʒ].
Jablunkov[10] [example needed]
Slovene enačba [eˈnáːd͡ʒbà] 'equation' Allophone of /t͡ʃ/ before voiced obstruents in native words. As a phoneme present only in loanwords. See Slovene phonology
Somali joog [d͡ʒoːɡ] 'stop' See Somali phonology
Tagalog diyan [d͡ʒän] 'there' Used to pronounce the multigraphs ⟨dy⟩ and ⟨diy⟩ in native words and ⟨j⟩ in loanwords outside Spanish. For more information, see Tagalog phonology.
Tatar Mishar Dialect[11] can / җан [d͡ʒɑn] 'soul' In standard Tatar (Kazan dialect), the sound for letter c (җ) is ⟨ʑ⟩.
Turkish acı [äˈd͡ʒɯ] 'pain' See Turkish phonology
Turkmen jar [d͡ʒär] 'ravine'
Tyap jem [d͡ʒem] 'hippopotamus'
Ubykh [amd͡ʒan] '?' See Ubykh phonology
Ukrainian[12] джерело/džerelo [d͡ʒɛrɛˈlɔ] 'source' See Ukrainian phonology
Uyghur coza / جوزا [d͡ʒozɑ] 'desk' See Uyghur phonology
Uzbek jahon / жаҳон [d͡ʒaˈhɒn] 'world'
West Frisian siedzje [ˈʃɪd͡ʒə] 'to sow' See West Frisian phonology
Yiddish דזשוכע/juche [d͡ʒʊxə] 'insect' See Yiddish phonology
Zapotec Tilquiapan[13] dxan [d͡ʒaŋ] 'god'

Voiced postalveolar non-sibilant affricate

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Voiced postalveolar non-sibilant affricate
d̠ɹ̠˔
dɹ̝˗
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Features

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Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
English Australian[14] dream [d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɪi̯m] 'dream' Phonetic realization of the stressed, syllable-initial sequence /dr/.[14][15][16] In General American and Received Pronunciation, the less common alternative is alveolar [d͡ɹ̝].[15] See Australian English phonology and English phonology
General American[15][16]
Received Pronunciation[15][16]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Watson (2002:16)
  2. ^ Dum-Tragut (2009:13)
  3. ^ Shosted & Chikovani (2006:255)
  4. ^ a b Mangold (2005:51–52)
  5. ^ Rogers & d'Arcangeli (2004:117)
  6. ^ Jerzy Treder. "Fonetyka i fonologia". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  7. ^ Peters (2006:119)
  8. ^ a b c d Dubisz, Karaś & Kolis (1995:62)
  9. ^ Barbosa & Albano (2004:228)
  10. ^ a b Dąbrowska (2004:?)
  11. ^ Leitzinger, Antero: Mishäärit – Suomen vanha islamilainen yhteisö. Helsinki: Kirja-Leitzinger, 1996. ISBN 952-9752-08-3. (p. 45)
  12. ^ Danyenko & Vakulenko (1995), p. 4.
  13. ^ Merrill (2008:108)
  14. ^ a b Cox & Fletcher (2017), p. 144.
  15. ^ a b c d Cruttenden (2014), pp. 177, 186–188, 192.
  16. ^ a b c Wells (2008).

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