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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 , alternatively but unofficially (entity 677), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is dz.

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Features

Features of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate:

★ Its manner of articulation is sibilant affricate, which means it is 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 is 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 is 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 is articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

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★ In Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian (Serbo-Croatian), this sound is represented with Latin letter Đ/đ or Cyrillic letter Ђ/ђ. Etymologically, it occurs as result of iotation of sound , as in ''viđen < vid + jen'' or, occasionally, , as in Đorđe.

★ In Polish, this sound is represented with letters ''dź'' or ''dzi'' (before vowels).

★ In Japanese, this sound is found as an allophone of and before and . It is commonly romanized .