Voiced retroflex affricate

The voiced retroflex affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɖ͡ʐ ⟩, sometimes simplified to ⟨dʐ ⟩.^[1] It occurs in such languages as Polish (the laminal affricate dż) and Northwest Caucasian languages (apical).

Features

Features of the voiced retroflex affricate:

Its manner of articulation is sibilant affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the air flow entirely, then directing it with the tongue to the sharp edge of the teeth, causing high-frequency turbulence.
Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue can be apical (pointed) or, in some fricatives, laminal (flat).
Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Belarusian		лічба	[lʲiɖ͡ʐbä]	'number'	Laminal. See Belarusian phonology
Polish	Standard^[2]^[3]	[[[Polish orthography\|dżem]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)	[ɖ͡ʐɛm]^ⓘ	'jam'	Laminal; it's transcribed /d͡ʒ/ by most Polish scolars. See Polish phonology
	Southeastern Cuyavian dialects^[4]	[[[Polish orthography\|dzwon]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)	[ɖ͡ʐvɔn̪]	'bell'	Some speakers. It's a result of hypercorrecting the more popular merger of /ɖ͡ʐ/ and /d͡z/ into [d͡z].
	Suwałki dialect^[5]		[ɖ͡ʐvɔn̪]	'bell'
Northern Qiang		[vvdhe] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)	[ʁɖ͡ʐə]	'star'
Russian^[3]^[6]		джем	[ɖ͡ʐɛm]^ⓘ	'jam'	Laminal. It's a very rare variant, and it's usually pronounced as 2 dedicated sounds: [dʐ]. See Russian phonology
Serbo-Croatian	Bosnian	[[[Serbian Cyrillic alphabet\|џем]] / džem] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)	[ɖ͡ʐê̞m]	'jam'	Laminal; may be palato-alveolar for some speakers. See Serbo-Croatian phonology
	Montenegrin
	Serbian
Slovak^[7]		[džús] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)	[ɖ͡ʐuːs]	'juice'	Laminal.
Torwali^[8]		?	[ɖ͡ʐiɡ̥]	'long'	Contrasts with a palatal affricate.
Yi		ꎐ [[[Yi script\|rry]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)	[ɖ͡ʐɪ˧]	'tooth'

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