The voiced retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨d̠͡ʐ ⟩, sometimes simplified to ⟨dʐ ⟩ or ⟨ꭦ ⟩. It occurs in such languages as Polish (the laminal affricate dż) and Northwest Caucasian languages (apical).
Retracted | |||
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d̠͡ʐ | |||
ꭦ | |||
IPA Number | 106 (137) | ||
Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ɖ͡ʐ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0256 U+0361 U+0290 | ||
X-SAMPA | dz` | ||
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Features of the voiced retroflex affricate:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Asturian | Some dialects | ḷḷuna | ['ɖ͡ʐunä] | 'moon' | Corresponds to /ʎ/ in other dialects. See Che Vaqueira |
Belarusian | джаз | [ɖ͡ʐas] | 'jazz' | Laminal. See Belarusian phonology | |
Chinese | Wu | 长 | [ɖ͡ʐaŋ] | 'to grow' | Only found in a few Wu dialects. |
Some Mandarin speakers | 广州 | [kwaŋ˨˩ ɖ͡ʐoʊ˥˥] | 'Guangzhou' | ||
Khowar[1] | ݮنݮیر | [ɖ͡ʐanɖ͡ʐer] | 'chain' | - | |
Polish | Standard[2][3] | dżem | ⓘ | 'jam' | Laminal; it's transcribed /d͡ʒ/ by most Polish scholars. See Polish phonology |
Southeastern Cuyavian dialects[4] | dzwon | [ɖ͡ʐvɔn̪] | 'bell' | Some speakers. It's a result of hypercorrecting the more popular merger of /ɖ͡ʐ/ and /d͡z/ into [d͡z]. | |
Suwałki dialect[5] | |||||
Northern Qiang | vvdhe | [ʁɖ͡ʐə] | 'star' | ||
Serbo-Croatian[6][7] | џеп / džep | [ɖ͡ʐê̞p] | 'pocket' | Apical. It may be palato-alveolar instead, depending on the dialect. See Serbo-Croatian phonology | |
Slovak[8] | džús | [ɖ͡ʐu̞ːs] | 'juice' | Laminal. | |
Torwali[9] | حؕىگ | [ɖ͡ʐiɡ̥] | 'long' | Contrasts with a palatal affricate. | |
Yi | ꎐ / rry | [ɖ͡ʐɪ˧] | 'tooth' |
Voiced retroflex non-sibilant affricate | |
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d̠͡ɻ̝ |
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Malagasy[10] | [example needed] | Also described as regular plosives, trilled affricates and sibilant affricates. |