Voiced palatal implosive should not be confused with ƒ.
| Ipa Symbol: | ʄ |
| Ipa Number: | 164 |
| Decimal: | 644 |
| Xsampa: | J\_< |
| Kirshenbaum: | J` |
| Braille: | 236 |
| Braille2: | in |
| Braille3: | j |
| Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x0284.svg |
The voiced palatal implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA| ʄ ), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\_<. Typographically, the IPA symbol is a dotless lowercase letter j with a horizontal stroke that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter f (the symbol for the voiced palatal stop) and a rightward hook (the diacritic for implosives). A very similar-looking letter, ( ƒ ) (an (f) with a tail), is used in Ewe for pronounced as /link/.
Features of the voiced palatal implosive:
| Language | Dialect | Word | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pronounced as /[ʄetugol]/ | 'to take' | |||||
| Konso[1] | pronounced as /[ʄapʄap]/ | ‘to rot/decay completely’ | ||||
| Serer | Serer: '''ƈ'''aar/Serer: ࢢَارْ | pronounced as /[ʄaːɾ]/ | 'to have ringworm' | Contrasts /ɓ̥, ɗ̥, ʄ̊, ɓ, ɗ, ʄ/. | ||
| Somali[2] | Maay Maay | |||||
| Swahili | Swahili: '''j'''ana | pronounced as /[ʄana]/ | 'yesterday' | In free variation with /dʒ/ | ||
| Saraiki | ڄاݨݨ | pronounced as /[ʄɑ̃ɽəɳ]/ | 'know' | |||
| Sindhi | ڄِڀَ | 'tongue' | ||||
| pronounced as /[ʄoːɡ]/ | 'to stay' | |||||
| Wu[3] [4] | (cia1) | pronounced as /[ʄiɑ˥˧]/ | 'domestic' | literary reading | ||
pronounced as /navigation/