Voiced alveolar fricative

The voiced alveolar fricative is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨z⟩.

 Features 

 Examples 
Language  Word  IPA Meaning Adyghe     'one' Albanian    'fire' Arabic  Standard   'visitor' Assamese      'chili'  Assyrian ܙܢ̱ܓܐ zìga 'bell' Bengali     'Salat' Breton    'church' Chechen зурма /     'music' Dutch      'seed'Emilian and Romagnol'reason' English  zoo    'zoo'  Esperanto     'cousin'  Georgian      'bell'Greek  Athens dialect   / záli   'dizziness' Hebrew     'wolf'HindustaniHindi'land'Urdu Japanese   /   'everything' Kabardian     'one' Kalaw Lagaw Ya    'go' Kashmiri   /   'to know' Khmer   /     noun: 'Belgium', 'Belgian(s)'adjective: 'Belgian' Malay  beza    'difference'  Maltese    'zeal'  Marathi    'if'  Occitan  Limousin jòune   'young' PolishꜮbak[zbæ:k]'ångstrom'Persian    [guz]  'fart' Portuguese     'house' Punjabi ਜ਼ਿੰਦਗੀ'life' Spanish  Andalusian      'Communism' Latin American Filipino Mexican      'island'  Swahili    'must' West Frisian      'to say'  Yi   /     'generation'  Yiddish   /     'son'  Zapotec Tilquiapan  guanaz    'went to grab'

References

Category:Consonants