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Wikipedia / Voiced palatal implosive

A 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 . 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, (an with a tail), is used in Ewe for .

Features

Features of a voiced palatal implosive:

Occurrence

Palatal

Language

Word

IPA

Meaning

Notes

Fula

jetugol

'to take'

Konso

japjap

‘to rot/decay completely’

Serer

'to have ringworm'

Written as in the Arabic script and as in Latin script. Contrasts /ɓ̥, ɗ̥, ʄ̊, ɓ, ɗ, ʄ/.

Somali

Maay Maay

Swahili

'yesterday'

In free variation with /dʒ/

Saraiki

ڄاݨݨ

'know'

Sindhi

ڄِڀَ

'tongue'

Tunni

'to stay'

Wu

Fengxian

(cia1)

'domestic'

literary reading

Post-palatal

There is also a voiced post-palatal (or pre-velar) implosive. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for this sound, but it can be transcribed as / or /.

Language

Word

IPA

Meaning

Notes

Ndebele

Northern

sisibekelo

'lid'

Velar before back vowels; 'pre-velar' before front vowels.

See also

Notes

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