Voiced alveolopalatal fricative

The voiced fricative alveolopalatale is a voiced , alveolopalataler fricative . The consonant sounds for German as a mixture of the voiced alveolar fricative [ z ] (the s in "sun") and voiced postalveolar fricatives [ ʒ ] (the sch in "jungle"), wherein the tongue is not (as in the voiced retroflex Fricative [ ʐ ]) is bent behind the dental dam.

The voiced alveolopalatal fricative has the following phonetic and orthographic realizations in different languages :

Abkhazian : жь
- Example: ажьа [ aˈʑa ] ("rabbit")
Japanese : j ( Hepburn romanization ), the consonant of the syllables じ, じゃ, じゅ, じょ, ぢ, ぢゃ, ぢゅ and ぢょ (each in free variation with the affricate [ dʑ ])
- 時期 ( じき , jiki ) = [ʑiki] "time", "period"
- じゃ ( yes ) = [ʑa] "well", "also", "now", "then"
- 縮む ( ちぢむ , chijimu ) = [ʨiʑimɯ] "to shrink", "to shorten"
- 一年中 ( いちねんぢゅう or いちねんじゅう , ichinenjū ) = [iʨineɴʑɯː] "all year round", "all year long"
Polish : ź or zi
- Examples: ź le [ ʑlɛ ] (adv., "Bad"), d zi ękuję [ dʑɛŋˈkujɛ̃ ] ("thank you")

Lower Sorbian : ź asety [ ʑasɛtɨ ] "tenth"