Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate

The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are ⟨d͡ʑ⟩, ⟨d͜ʑ⟩, ⟨ɟ͡ʑ⟩ and ⟨ɟ͜ʑ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are  and , though transcribing the stop component with ⟨ɟ⟩ (  in X-SAMPA) is rare. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨dʑ⟩ or ⟨ɟʑ⟩ in the IPA and  or   in X-SAMPA.

Neither nor  is a completely narrow transcription of the stop component, which can be narrowly transcribed as  (retracted and palatalized ),  or  (both symbols denote an advanced ). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are  or   and , respectively. There is also a dedicated symbol ⟨ȡ⟩, which is not a part of the IPA. Therefore, narrow transcriptions of the voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate include, , and.

This affricate used to have a dedicated symbol ; ⟨ʥ⟩ was one of the six dedicated symbols for affricates in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is the sibilant equivalent of voiced palatal affricate.

Features
Features of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate: