Voiced palatal affricate

Voiced palatal affricate
ɟʝ
IPA Number108 (139)
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ɟ​͡​ʝ
Unicode (hex)U+025F U+0361 U+029D
X-SAMPAJ\_j\

The voiced palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are ɟ͡ʝ and ɟ͜ʝ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\_j\. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ɟʝ in the IPA and J\j\ in X-SAMPA.

This sound is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate.

It occurs in languages such as Albanian, and Skolt Sami, among others. The voiced palatal affricate is quite rare; it is mostly absent from Europe as a phoneme (it occurs as an allophone in most Spanish dialects), with the aforementioned Uralic languages and Albanian being exceptions. It usually occurs with its voiceless counterpart, the voiceless palatal affricate.


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