Graphemes for /ʒ/ and Related Phonemes

Post-alveolars

/ʒ/ - voiced post-alveolar fricative

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
ar-Arab	<ج>	مجلتنا ‘our magazine’
dv-Thaa	<ޜ>	ޓްރެޜަރީ	A letter devised to transliterate Persian ‹ژ›. Occurs only in words of foreign origin.
en-Latn	<si>	vision
en-Latn	<s>	measure
ha-Latn	<zh>		Niger dialect only
png-Latn	<zh>	zhaa, zhe̱nke̱n

Alveo-palatals

/ʑ/ - voiced alveo-palatal fricative

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
ii-Latn	<y>	yi ‘house’	Grapheme ‹y› is used for both a consonant and a vowel, as in syllable ‹yy› / ʑɨ / ‘water’.
ru-Cyrl	<зж>	по́зже ‘later’	Marginally phonemic, only in conservative standard accent of Moscow and only in a handful of words even then. Was previously geminate but is no longer.
ru-Cyrl	<щ>	вещдо́к ‘material evidence’	Marginally phonemic, only in conservative standard accent of Moscow and only in a handful of words even then

Palatals

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