A 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 , . The tie bar may be omitted, yielding . There is also a ligature , which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. Occasionally the stop component is transcribed . An older transcription that indicated approximately the same sound was .
is a broad transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as (retracted and palatalized ). There is also a para-IPA letter . Therefore, narrow transcriptions include and . However, this is not normally done because the stop component is by default assumed to be homorganic with the fricative component of the consonant.
is the sibilant equivalent of a voiced palatal affricate.
Features Features of a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate:
Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Bengali যখন 'when' Contrasts aspirated form. See Bengali phonology Burmese 'top (toy)' Catalan Most dialects 'means' See Catalan phonology Valencian 'game' Standard and usual affricated pronunciation found in Valencian, and also in parts of Southern and Western Catalonia. See Catalan phonology Some dialects 'twelve' Merger of with in Tortosan and some Valencian dialects. See Catalan phonology 'all at once' Voiced allophone of final . See Catalan phonology Chinese Southern Min / 'sun' Wu 渠 'he/she/it' Irish Some dialects 'red' Realization of the palatalized alveolar stop in dialects such as Erris, Teelin and Tourmakeady. See Irish phonology Japanese / 'acquaintance' Also transcribed as . See Japanese phonology Kalmyk / 'chest' Kazakh Some speakers / 'land' Often realized as . See Kazakh phonology Korean South / 'letter' See Korean phonology Kyrgyz Some speakers / 'no' Typically postalveolar . See Kyrgyz phonologyMarathiSome speakersजीवन / jīvana[d͡ʑiːʋə̞n̪]'life'In free variation with palato-alveolar .MalayJambiتوجوه / tujuh'seven'See Jambi Malay Okinawan 'thief' Polish 'sound' See Polish phonology Romanian Banat dialect 'frequent' Allophone of before front vowels. Corresponds to in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology Russian 'daughter would' Allophone of before voiced consonants. See Russian phonology Sema 'blood' Possible allophone of before ; can be realized as instead. Serbo-Croatian / 'devil' Merges with in Kajkavian and Chakavian dialects. See Serbo-Croatian phonology Swedish djur 'animal' Allophone of in initial position in older Standard Swedish, Norrbotten and Finland Uzbek Some speakers jon 'dear' Typically postalveolar . See Uzbek phonology Xumi Lower 'water' Upper Yi / 'bee'
See also Index of phonetics articles Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate Voiced palatal affricate
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