A voiced palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are ⟨ɟ͡ʝ⟩ and ⟨ɟ͜ʝ⟩. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨ɟʝ⟩.
| Voiced palatal affricate | |
|---|---|
| ɟʝ | |
| IPA number | 108 (139) |
| Audio sample | |
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| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | ɟ͡ʝ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+025F U+0361 U+029D |
| X-SAMPA | J\_j\ |
This sound is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate.
It occurs in languages such as Albanian and Skolt Sami, among others. The voiced palatal affricate is quite rare; it is mostly absent from Europe as a phoneme (it occurs as an allophone in most Spanish dialects), with the aforementioned Uralic languages and Albanian being exceptions. It usually occurs with its voiceless counterpart, the voiceless palatal affricate.
Features
Features of a voiced palatal affricate:
- Its manner of articulation is affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence. It is not a sibilant.
- Its place of articulation is palatal, which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the tongue raised to the hard palate.
- Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
- It is a median consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream down the midline of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | Standard | gjë | [ɟ͡ʝə] | 'thing' | |
| Asturian | Western dialects | muyyer | [muˈɟ͡ʝeɾ] | 'woman' | Alternate evolution of -lj-, -c'l-, pl-, cl- and fl- in the Brañas Vaqueiras area of Western Asturias. May be also realized as [c] or [c͡ç] |
| Makassarese | jarang | [ˈɟ͡ʝa.rãŋ] | 'horse' | Phonemicized as /ɟ/. | |
| Norwegian | Central and Western dialects | leggja | [leɟ͡ja] | 'lay' | See Norwegian phonology |
| Skolt Sami | vuõˊlǧǧem | [vʲuɘlɟ͡ʝːɛm] | 'I leave' | Contrasts with [d͡ʒ], [ʒ] and [ʝ]. See Skolt Sami language | |
| Spanish | Castilian | yate | [ˈɟ͡jate̞] | 'yacht' | Occurs only in the onset. In free variation with the fricative/approximant /ʝ/ elsewhere. See Spanish phonology |
See also
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