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 . 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
thumb|upright=0.6|class=skin-invert-image|[[Sagittal section of a voiced retroflex fricative]]
Features of a voiced retroflex sibilant:
Occurrence
In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical and laminal .
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! colspan="2" | Language !! Word !! IPA!! Meaning !! Notes
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| colspan="2" | Abkhaz || || ||'half'|| See Abkhaz phonology
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| colspan="2" | Adyghe || / / || || 'old'|| Laminal.
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| colspan="2" |Awetí
|colspan="2" align="center"|
|'to pray'
|Diachronically related to and also to some other alveolar sounds in certain occasions. As word lists created in the 1900s appoint for where there is now, the latter sound is supposed to be the result of a very recent sound change that is analogically happening in Waurá.
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| rowspan="2" | Chinese|| Mandarin|| 肉 / ròu || ||'meat'|| Also transcribed as a retroflex approximant depending on accent and dialect. See Mandarin phonology.
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| Changshu dialect|| || ||'Changshu'|| Pronounced [ʂʱ] when occurring at the first syllable. A native Wu Chinese speaker may reduce it a sound closer to a retroflex approximant (similar to the Standard Mandarin r) when trying to force an unnatural voiced pronunciation on the first syllable.
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| colspan="2" | Faroese || || ||'run'||
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| colspan="2" | Lower Sorbian || || || 'Lusatia' ||
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| colspan="2" | Mapudungun || || || 'flower' || May be or instead.
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| colspan="2" |Marringarr
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|'long-necked turtle'
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| Marrithiyel || Marri Tjevin dialect || colspan="2" align="center"| ||'they are laughing'|| Voicing is non-contrastive.
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| colspan="2" | Mehináku || colspan="2" align="center" | ||'parrot'|| Resulted from the voicing of in between vowels.
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| Pashto ||Southern dialect || / || ||'thirsty'|| See Pashto phonology
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| rowspan="3" | Polish || Standard || || || 'wife' || Also represented orthographically by and, when written so, may be instead pronounced as the raised alveolar non-sonorant trill by few speakers. It is transcribed as by most Polish scholars. See Polish phonology
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| Southeastern Cuyavian dialects || rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | 'he paid' || rowspan="2" | Some speakers. It is a result of hypercorrecting the more popular merger of and into (see Szadzenie).
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| Suwałki dialect
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| colspan="2" | Romagnol|| ||
| 'ten' || Apical; may be or instead.
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| rowspan="2" | Russian || Standard Tend to be labialised and/ or velarised. See Russian phonology
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| Most speakers in most words || || || 'to call in casually <br />/to drive into' || Modern pronunciation of older often derived from underlying or . Subsists as such in some words for conservative Moskovite accents.
|rowspan="2" | / ẓakuṇ
|rowspan="2" |
|rowspan="2" | 'donkey'
|rowspan="2" |
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| Kohistani
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| colspan="2" | Slovak|| || || 'frog' ||
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| rowspan="2" |Spanish
| rowspan="2" |Andean
|hacer
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||'do'
|The phoneme changes to , when it is at the end of a syllable
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| marrón, ratón || , || 'brown', 'mouse' ||See Spanish phonology
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| Swedish||Central dialects
| || || 'raw'|| Apical. Allophone of rhotic, may also be pronounced , or . See Swedish phonology
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| colspan="2" |Taruma
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|'rain'
| Main allophone of a marginal retroflex phoneme, with as quasi-allohpone word initially before .
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| colspan="2" | Tilquiapan Zapotec ||? || || 'bottom' ||
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| colspan="2" | Torwali |||| ||'straight' ||
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| colspan="2" | Ubykh ||colspan="2" align="center"| || 'firewood'|| See Ubykh phonology
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| colspan="2" | Ukrainian || / žaba || || 'frog' || See Ukrainian phonology
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| Upper Sorbian || Some dialects || || || || Used in dialects spoken in villages north of Hoyerswerda; corresponds to in the standard language. || red || || 'red' || Apical; typical realization of in that region.