Voiced palatal plosive

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IPA – number 108
IPA – text ɟ
IPA – image {{{imagesize}}}
Entity ɟ
X-SAMPA J\
Kirshenbaum J
Sound sample 


The voiced palatal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɟ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\. The IPA symbol can be considered either a lowercase dotless j with a stroke or a turned lowercase letter f.

Hungarian and Albanian are two of the few languages with true palatal plosives. More commonly, the symbol [ɟ] is used to represent a voiced postalveolar affricate, for example in the Indic languages. This may be considered appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified, but the distinction between stop and affricate is not contrastive, and therefore of secondary importance.

[edit] Features

Features of the voiced palatal plosive:

[edit] Occurs in

  • Albanian: gjuha [ˈɟuha], "tongue"
  • Auvergnat: diguèt [ɟiˈgɛ], "said (3 sg.)"
  • Czech: dělám [ɟɛlaːm], "I do"
  • Dinka: jir [ɟir], "blunt"
  • Greek: μετάγγιση [me̞ˈta(ɲ).ɟi.si], "transfusion"
  • Hungarian: gyám [ɟaːm], "guardian"
  • Irish: Gaeilge [ˈgeːlʲɟə], "Gaelic"
  • Latvian: ģimene ['ɟimene], "family"
  • Limousin: dissèt [ɟiˈʃɛ], "said (3 sg.)"
  • Macedonian: раѓање [raɟaɲɛ], "birth"
  • Slovak: ďaleký [ˈɟaʎɛkiː], "far"
  • Turkish: güneş [ɟyˈneʃ], "sun"

[edit] See also

  Consonants (List, table) See also: IPA, Vowels  
Pulmonics Bilabial Lab'den. Dental Alveolar Postalv. Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyn. Epiglottal Glottal Non-pulmonics and other symbols
Nasals m ɱ n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ Clicks  ʘ ǀ ǃ ǂ ǁ
Plosives p b t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Implo­­sives  ɓ ɗ ʄ ɠ ʛ
Fricatives  ɸ β f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ʂ ʐ ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ ħ ʕ ʜ ʢ h ɦ Ejec­­tives 
Approximants  β̞ ʋ ð̞ ɹ ɻ j ɰ Other laterals  ɺ ɫ
Trills ʙ r ʀ Co-articulated approximants ʍ w ɥ
Flaps & Taps ѵ̟ ѵ ɾ ɽ Co-articulated fricatives ɕ ʑ ɧ
Lat. Fricatives ɬ ɮ Affricates  ʦ ʣ ʧ ʤ
Lat. Appr'mants l ɭ ʎ ʟ Co-articulated stops  k͡p ɡ͡b ŋ͡m
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged impossible.