| Above: | Voiced palatal affricate |
| Ipa Number: | 108 (139) |
| Ipa Symbol: | ɟʝ |
| Decimal1: | 607 |
| Decimal2: | 865 |
| Decimal3: | 669 |
| X-Sampa: | J\_j\ |
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 (IPA|ɟ͡ʝ) and (IPA|ɟ͜ʝ), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\_j\. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding (IPA|ɟʝ) 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 languages such as Albanian, and Skolt Sami, among others. The voiced palatal affricate is quite rare; it is mostly absent from Europe as a phoneme (it occurs as an allophone in most Spanish dialects), with the aforementioned Uralic languages and Albanian being exceptions. It usually occurs with its voiceless counterpart, the voiceless palatal affricate.
Features of the voiced palatal affricate:
It is not a sibilant.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | Standard[1] | gjë | pronounced as /[ɟ͡ʝə]/ | 'thing' | ||
| Asturian | Western dialects[2] | muyyer | pronounced as /[muˈɟ͡ʝeɾ]/ | 'woman' | Alternate evolution of --, --, -, - and - in the Brañas Vaqueiras area of Western Asturias. May be also realized as pronounced as /link/ or pronounced as /link/ | |
| Makassarese[3] | jarang | pronounced as /[ˈɟ͡ʝa.rãŋ]/ | 'horse' | Phonemicized as pronounced as //ɟ//. | ||
| Norwegian | Central and Western dialects | Norwegian: [[Norwegian alphabet|le'''ggj'''a]] | pronounced as /[leɟ͡ja]/ | 'lay' | See Norwegian phonology | |
| Skolt Sami | vuõˊlǧǧem | pronounced as /[vʲuɘlɟ͡ʝːɛm]/ | 'I leave' | Contrasts with pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/. See Skolt Sami language | ||
| Spanish | Castilian | Norwegian: [[Spanish alphabet|'''y'''ate]] | pronounced as /[ˈɟ͡jate̞]/ | 'yacht' | Occurs only in the onset. In free variation with the fricative/approximant /ʝ/ elsewhere. See Spanish phonology | |
pronounced as /navigation/