Voiced palatal affricate
The voiced palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are and, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\_j\. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding in the IPA and J\j\ in X-SAMPA.
This sound is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate.
It occurs in such languages as Hungarian and Skolt Sami, among others. The voiced palatal affricate is quite rare; it is mostly absent from Europe as a phoneme, with the aforementioned Uralic languages and Albanian being exceptions. It usually occurs with its voiceless counterpart, the voiceless palatal affricate.Features
Features of the voiced palatal affricate:
It is not a sibilant.Occurrence
