Voiced post-alveolar fricative consonant

The voiced post-alveolar fricative consonant is a consonant sound rather not very frequent in the spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is. This symbol is that of the Latin letter Ezh tiny, drawn from the tiny Z but whose lower arm swells in subscribed leg turned towards the left.

Characteristics

Here characteristics of the fricative consonant post-aléolaire voiced:

Its mode of articulation is fricative, which means that it is produced by contracting the air through a narrow gauge railway at the joint, causing turbulence.
Its joint is post-alveolar, which means that it is articulated with on the one hand before language behind the alveolar peak, on the other hand the body of the language is curved on the palate.
Its phonation is voiced, which means that the vocal cords vibrate at the time of the articulation.
It is a oral Consonne, which means that the air does not escape that by the mouth.
It is a central Consonne, which means that it is produced by letting the air pass above the medium of the language, rather than by the sides.
Its mechanism of draft is égressif pulmonary, which means that it is articulated by pushing the air by the lungs and through the channel vocatoire, rather than by the glottis or the mouth.

In French

The French has it. He is generally written J . He is generally labialized ().

Other languages

Certain languages do not know it, such as for example the Spanish , or the Sanskrit. The Slavic languages with Latin alphabet use the letter ž or ż .

See too

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