A 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 and . The tie bar may be omitted, yielding .
This sound is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate.
It occurs in languages such as Albanian and Skolt Sami. 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.
Features Features of a voiced palatal affricate:
It is not a sibilant.
Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning NotesAlbanianStandardPalatal controversies Péter Siptár(2013) gjë 'thing' Asturian Western dialects muyyer 'woman' Alternate evolution of --, --, -, - and - in the Brañas Vaqueiras area of Western Asturias. May be also realized as or MakassareseJukes, Anthony, "Makassar" in K. Alexander Adelaar & Nikolaus Himmelmann, 2005, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, pp. 649-682, London, Routledge jarang'horse'Phonemicized as .Norwegian Central and Western dialects 'lay'See Norwegian phonology Skolt Sami vuõˊlǧǧem 'I leave'Contrasts with , and . See Skolt Sami language Spanish Castilian 'yacht' Occurs only in the onset and may be also realized as the plosive . In free variation with the fricative /spirant approximant elsewhere. See Spanish phonology
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