Voiced postalveolar affricate

The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨d͡ʒ⟩ (formerly the ligature ⟨ʤ⟩), or in some broad transcriptions ⟨ɟ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is. Alternatives commonly used in linguistic works, particularly in older or American literature, are $⟨ǰ⟩$, $⟨ǧ⟩$, $⟨ǯ⟩$, and $⟨dž⟩$. It is familiar to English speakers as the pronunciation of $⟨j⟩$ in jump.

Features
Features of the voiced postalveolar affricate:

Features

 * Its place of articulation is postalveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue behind the alveolar ridge.