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
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2"| Language
! Word !! IPA !! Meaning !! Notes
|-
| colspan="2" | Fula || align="center" | jetugol
||| 'to take' ||
|-
| colspan="2" |Konso
|japjap
|
|‘to rot/decay completely’
|
|-
| colspan="2" | 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
| colspan="2" |
|
|
|-
| colspan="2" | Swahili|| || || 'yesterday' || In free variation with /dʒ/
|-
| colspan="2" | Saraiki|| ڄاݨݨ|| || 'know' ||
|-
| colspan="2" | Sindhi|| ڄِڀَ|| || 'tongue' ||
|-
| colspan="2" | Tunni || colspan="2" align="center" | || 'to stay' ||
|-
| Wu || Fengxian || (cia<sup>1</sup>) || || 'domestic' || literary reading
|}
Post-palatal (pre-velar) implosive
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 /.
Features
Occurrence
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="2"| Language
! Word !! IPA !! Meaning !! Notes
|-
| Ndebele || Northern || sisibekelo || || 'lid' || Velar before back vowels; 'pre-velar' before front vowels.