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, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is z`. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of a z.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 languagesFeatures
Features of the voiced retroflex non-sibilant fricative:Occurrence
