Voiced retroflex fricative

The voiced retroflex sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʐ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of a z (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant).

Features


Features of the voiced retroflex sibilant:

Occurrence
In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical and laminal.

The commonality of cross-linguistically is 2% in a phonological analysis of 2155 languages.

Features
Features of the voiced retroflex non-sibilant fricative: