A voiced alveolo-palatal 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 (, plus the curl also found in its voiceless counterpart ). It is the sibilant equivalent of the voiced palatal fricative.
Features
thumb|upright=0.6|class=skin-invert-image|[[Sagittal section of a voiced alveolo-palatal fricative]]
Features of a voiced alveolo-palatal fricative:
Occurrence
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" | Language !! Word !! IPA!! Meaning !! Notes
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| colspan="2" | Abkhaz|| |||| 'hare'|| See Abkhaz phonology
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| colspan="2" | Adyghe || || || 'shadow'||
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| rowspan="2" | Catalan || Eastern || || || 'help' (n.) || rowspan="2" | See Catalan phonology
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| All dialects || || || 'blue fish'
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| rowspan=2| Chinese || Jiangshan || 十 || || 'ten' ||
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| Taiwanese Hokkien || / |||| 'today'||
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| colspan=2| Czech
|
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| 'life'
| See Czech phonology
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| English || Ghana|| vision || || 'vision' || Educated speakers may use , which this phoneme corresponds to in other dialects. || źasety || || 'tenth' ||
|-
| colspan="2" | Luxembourgish || || || 'high' || Allophone of after phonologically front vowels; some speakers merge it with . Occurs in only a few words. See Luxembourgish phonology
|-
| colspan="2" | Pa Na || colspan="2" align="center" | || 'small' ||
|-
| colspan="2" | Polish|| || || 'foal'|| Also denoted by the digraph . See Polish phonology
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| colspan="2" | Portuguese || || || 'magic' || Also described as palato-alveolar . See Portuguese phonology
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| Romani || Kalderash || || ||'he/she/it goes' || Realized as in conservative dialects.
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| Romanian || Transylvanian dialects || || || 'eyelash' || Realized as in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology
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| Russian || Conservative Moscow Standard || || || 'later' || Somewhat obsolete in many words, in which most speakers realize it as hard . || || || 'blood' || Possible allophone of before ; can be realized as instead. || || || 'the snail will' || Allophone of before . || carro || || 'car' || Non-standard, dialectal realization of and allophone of after .
|-
|Tatar
|Kazan dialect (standard Tatar)
|җан / can
|[ʑan]
|'soul'
|In Mishar Dialect, letter җ / c is [<nowiki/>d͡ʒ].
|-
| colspan="2" | Uzbek || || || ||
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| Xumi || Upper || colspan="2" align="center" | || 'beer, wine' ||
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| colspan="2" | Yi ||/ || || 'tobacco'||
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See also
- Index of phonetics articles