The voiced palatal implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ ʄ ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\_<
. Typographically, the IPA symbol is a dotless lowercase letter j with a horizontal stroke that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter f (the symbol for the voiced palatal stop) and a rightward hook (the diacritic for implosives). A very similar-looking letter, ⟨ ƒ ⟩ (an ⟨f⟩ with a tail), is used in Ewe for /ɸ/.
Voiced palatal implosive | |||
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ʄ | |||
IPA number | 164 | ||
Audio sample | |||
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Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ʄ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0284 | ||
X-SAMPA | J\_< | ||
Braille | |||
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Features of the voiced palatal implosive:
Language | Dialect | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
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Fula[1] | [ʄetugol] | 'to take' | |||
Konso[2] | [ʄapʄap] | ‘to rot/decay completely’ | |||
Serer[3] | ƈaar/ࢢَارْ | [ʄaːɾ] | 'to have ringworm' | Contrasts /ɓ̥, ɗ̥, ʄ̊, ɓ, ɗ, ʄ/. | |
Somali[4] | Maay Maay | [example needed] | |||
Swahili | jana | [ʄana] | 'yesterday' | In free variation with /dʒ/ | |
Saraiki | ڄارݨ | [ʄɑ̃ɽəɳ] | 'know' | ||
Sindhi | ڄِڀَ | 'tongue' | |||
Tunni[5] | [ʄoːɡ] | 'to stay' | |||
Wu[6][7] | Fengxian | 家 (cia1) | [ʄiɑ˥˧] | 'domestic' | literary reading |
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