VOICED PALATAL IMPLOSIVE

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 , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J_<. The IPA symbol can be considered to be a lowercase letter esh with a horizontal stroke, a turned lowercase letter ''f'' with a rightward hook protruding from the upper left, or a dotless lowercase letter ''j'' with a horizontal stroke (the symbol for the voiced palatal plosive) and a rightward hook (the diacritic for implosives).

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Occurs in

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Features

Features of the voiced palatal implosive:

★ Its manner of articulation is plosive or stop, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract.

★ Its place of articulation is palatal which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the tongue raised against the hard palate.

★ Its phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are 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 glottalic ingressive, which means it is produced by pulling air downward with the glottis, rather than pushing it out.

Occurs in

★ Swahili: jana "yesterday"

★ Sindhi: ڄرو "cobweb"

See also

★ List of phonetics topics