Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate Totally Explained

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The voiced alveolo-palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound are [d̠͡ʑ], alternatively but unofficially [ʥ] (entity 677), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is dz.

Features

Features of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate:

Its manner of articulation is sibilant affricate, which means it's produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then directing it through a groove in the tongue and over the sharp edge of the teeth, causing high-frequency turbulence.
Its place of articulation is alveolo-palatal, that is, palatalized laminal postalveolar, which means it's articulated with the blade of the tongue behind the alveolar ridge, and the body of the tongue raised toward the palate.
Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords are fully vibrating during the articulation.
It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
It is a central consonant, which means it's produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.
The airstream mechanism is pulmonic egressive, which means it's articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

Occurrence

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Bosnian	example needed	--	--
Catalan	metge	[ˈmed.d͡ʑə]	'doctor'	See Catalan phonology
Croatian	predgrađe	[predgrad͡ʑe]	'suburb'
Japanese	知人/chijin	[t͡ɕid͡ʑĩɴ]	'acquaintance'	See Japanese phonology
Polish	dźwięk		'sound'	See Polish phonology
Serbian	ђаво/đavo	[d͡ʑaʋo]	'demon'

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