Graphemes for /ʒ/ and Related Phonemes
Post-alveolars
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “Palatals”None