Voiced retroflex fricative
| Voiced retroflex fricative | |||
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| ʐ | |||
| IPA number | 137 | ||
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| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ʐ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0290 | ||
| X-SAMPA | z` | ||
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A 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 ⟨ʐ⟩. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of a z (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant).
Features
Features of a voiced retroflex sibilant:
- Its manner of articulation is sibilant (a subclass of fricatives and affricates), which means it is generally produced with a higher-frequency turbulence. Sibilants may be articulated with various tongue shapes and degrees of palatalization, depending on their place of articulation.
- Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue can be apical (pointed) or, in some fricatives, laminal (flat).
- Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
- It is a median consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream down the midline of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical [ʐ̺] and laminal [ʐ̻].
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | абжа/abža | [ˈabʐa] | 'half' | See Abkhaz phonology | |
| Adyghe | жъы / jı / ظہ | ⓘ | 'old' | Laminal. | |
| Awetí[1] | [pɨtiˈʐɨk˺] | 'to pray' | Diachronically related to [ɾ] and also to some other alveolar sounds in certain occasions. As word lists created in the 1900s appoint for [ɾ] where there is [ʐ] now, the latter sound is supposed to be the result of a very recent sound change that is analogically happening in Waurá.[1] | ||
| Chinese | Mandarin | 肉 / ròu | ⓘ | 'meat' | Also transcribed as a retroflex approximant [ɻ] depending on accent and dialect. See Mandarin phonology. |
| Changshu dialect | 常熟 | [tʂʱä̃˨˧˧ ʐɔʔ˨˧] | 'Changshu' | Pronounced [ʂʱ] when occurring at the first syllable. A native Wu Chinese speaker may reduce it a sound closer to a retroflex approximant [ɻ] (similar to the Standard Mandarin r) when trying to force an unnatural voiced pronunciation on the first syllable. | |
| Faroese | renn | [ʐɛn] | 'run' | ||
| Lower Sorbian[2][3] | Łužyca | [ˈwuʐɨt͡sa] | 'Lusatia' | ||
| Mapudungun[4] | rayen | [ʐɜˈjën] | 'flower' | May be [ɻ] or [ɭ] instead.[4] | |
| Marringarr[5] | ʐamu | [ʐɐmʊ] | 'long-necked turtle' | ||
| Marrithiyel | Marri Tjevin dialect | [wiˈɲaʐu] | 'they are laughing' | Voicing is non-contrastive. | |
| Mehináku[6] | [ɨˈʐũte] | 'parrot' | Resulted from the voicing of /ʂ/ in between vowels.[6] | ||
| Pashto | Southern dialect | tâjai / تږى | [ˈtəʐai] | 'thirsty' | See Pashto phonology |
| Polish | Standard[7] | żona | ⓘ | 'wife' | Also represented orthographically by ⟨rz⟩ and, when written so, may be instead pronounced as the raised alveolar non-sonorant trill by few speakers.[8] It is transcribed as /ʒ/ by most Polish scholars. See Polish phonology |
| Southeastern Cuyavian dialects[9] | zapłacił | [ʐäˈpwät͡ɕiw] | 'he paid' | Some speakers. It is a result of hypercorrecting the more popular merger of /ʐ/ and /z/ into [z] (see Szadzenie). | |
| Suwałki dialect[10] | |||||
| Romagnol | diṣ | [ˈdiːʐ] | 'ten' | Apical; may be [z̺ʲ] or [ʒ] instead. | |
| Russian | Standard[7] | жена / žená | ⓘ | 'wife' | Concave apical postalveolar, no true subapicality as expected from retroflexes.[11] Tend to be labialised and/ or velarised.[12] See Russian phonology |
| Most speakers in most words | заезжа́ть/ zajezžátʹ |
ⓘ | 'to call in casually /to drive into' |
Modern pronunciation of older /ʑː/ often derived from underlying /zʐ/ or /sʐ/. Subsists as such in some words for conservative Moskovite accents.[12] | |
| Serbo-Croatian | жут / žut | [ʐûːt̪] | 'yellow' | Typically transcribed as /ʒ/. See Serbo-Croatian phonology | |
| Shina | Gilgiti[13] | ڙَکُݨ / ẓakuṇ | [ʐəkuɳ] | 'donkey' | |
| Kohistani | |||||
| Slovak[14] | žaba | [ˈʐäbä] | 'frog' | ||
| Spanish | Andean | hacer | [a'seʐ] | 'do' | The phoneme /r/ changes to [ʐ], when it is at the end of a syllable |
| marrón, ratón | [maˈʐon], [ʐa'ton] | 'brown', 'mouse' | See Spanish phonology | ||
| Swedish | Central dialects[15] | rå | ⓘ | 'raw' | Apical. Allophone of rhotic, may also be pronounced [ɹ], [r] or [ɾ].[15][16] See Swedish phonology |
| Taruma[17] | hoza | [ˈho.ʐa] | 'rain' | Main allophone of a marginal retroflex phoneme, with [ɖʐ] as quasi-allohpone word initially before /ɨ/.[17] | |
| Tilquiapan Zapotec[18] | ? | [ʐan] | 'bottom' | ||
| Torwali[19] | ݜوڙ | [ʂuʐ] | 'straight' | ||
| Ubykh | [ʐa] | 'firewood' | See Ubykh phonology | ||
| Ukrainian | жaбa / žaba | [ˈʐɑbɐ] | 'frog' | See Ukrainian phonology | |
| Upper Sorbian | Some dialects[20][21] | Used in dialects spoken in villages north of Hoyerswerda; corresponds to [ʒ] in the standard language.[2] | |||
| Yi | ꏜ / ry | [ʐʐ̩˧] | 'grass' | ||
Voiced retroflex non-sibilant fricative
| Voiced retroflex non-sibilant fricative | |
|---|---|
| ɻ᷵ | |
| IPA number | 152 429 |
| Audio sample | |
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| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | r\`_r |
Features
Features of a voiced retroflex non-sibilant fricative:
- Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
- Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue can be apical (pointed) or, in some fricatives, laminal (flat).
- Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
- It is a median consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream down the midline of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Eastern Cape[22] | red | [ɻ᷵ed] | 'red' | Apical; typical realization of /r/ in that region.[22] See South African English phonology |
See also
- Index of phonetics articles
- Voiced postalveolar fricative
- Voiceless retroflex fricative
Citations
- ^ a b Drude (2020), p. 190.
- ^ a b Šewc-Schuster (1984:40–41)
- ^ Zygis (2003:180–181, 190–191)
- ^ a b Sadowsky et al. (2013), p. 90.
- ^ Bicevskis, Katie (2023). A grammatical description of Marri Ngarr. University of Melbourne.
- ^ a b Felipe (2020), pp. 87–89.
- ^ a b Hamann (2004:65)
- ^ "Gwary polskie – Frykatywne rż (ř)". Archived from the original on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
- ^ "Gwary polskie – Gwara regionu". www.gwarypolskie.uw.edu.pl. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Gwary polskie – Szadzenie". www.gwarypolskie.uw.edu.pl. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ Hamann (2004:56, 64)
- ^ a b Yanushevskaya, Irena; Bunčić, Daniel (2015), "Russian" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 45 (2): 224, doi:10.1017/S0025100314000395
- ^ Ziya, Muhammad Amin (2010). ݜِناٗ - اُردو لغت [Gilti Shina Urdu Dictionary] (in Urdu). Gilgit: Zia Publications. ISBN 978-969-942-00-8-.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: length (help) - ^ Hanulíková & Hamann (2010:374)
- ^ a b Elert, Claes-Christian (2000). Allmän och svensk fonetik [General and Swedish phonetics] (in Swedish) (8 ed.). Stockholm: Norstedts. p. ?. ISBN 91-1-300939-7.
- ^ Andersson, Erik (2002). "Swedish". In König, Ekkehard; van der Auwera, Johan (eds.). The Germanic Languages. Routledge language family descriptions. Routledge. p. 273. ISBN 0-415-28079-6.
- ^ a b Serke, Anna (2022). A description of Taruma phonology (Master thesis). Leiden: Universiteit Leiden. pp. 26–27. Archived from the original on 14 July 2025.
- ^ Merrill (2008:109)
- ^ Lunsford (2001:16–20)
- ^ Šewc-Schuster (1984:41)
- ^ Zygis (2003:180)
- ^ a b Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996:165)
References
- Hamann, Silke (2004), "Retroflex fricatives in Slavic languages" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (1): 53–67, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001604, S2CID 2224095
- Hanulíková, Adriana; Hamann, Silke (2010), "Slovak" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 40 (3): 373–378, doi:10.1017/S0025100310000162
- Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19815-6.
- Lunsford, Wayne A. (2001), "An overview of linguistic structures in Torwali, a language of Northern Pakistan" (PDF), M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
- Merrill, Elizabeth (2008), "Tilquiapan Zapotec", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 38 (1): 107–114, doi:10.1017/S0025100308003344
- Sadowsky, Scott; Painequeo, Héctor; Salamanca, Gastón; Avelino, Heriberto (2013), "Mapudungun", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 43 (1): 87–96, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000369
- Šewc-Schuster, Hinc (1984), Gramatika hornjo-serbskeje rěče, Budyšin: Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina
- Zygis, Marzena (2003), "Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Slavic Sibilant Fricatives", ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 3: 175–213, doi:10.21248/zaspil.32.2003.191
- Drude, Sebastian (2020), "A Fonologia do Awetí", Revista Brasileira de Línguas Indígenas (in Brazilian Portuguese), 3 (2): 190, doi:10.18468/rbli.2020v3n2.p183-205, S2CID 234223262
- Felipe, Paulo Henrique Pereira Silva de (2020), Fonologia e morfossintaxe da língua mehináku (arawak) (Thesis), pp. 87–89, hdl:20.500.12733/1640175
External links
- List of languages with [ʐ] on PHOIBLE
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