Voiced postalveolar fricative

From FrathWiki
Revision as of 07:09, 27 September 2008 by Blackkdark (talk | contribs) (→‎English)
Jump to navigationJump to search

The Voiced Postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ is also known as a palatal, because of some of the influence of the palate in direction of the tongue, but it's not a true palatal sound.

Natlangs

English

English, like many language, has many loanwords from French which have the /ʒ/ sound. In many cases the sound is transformed into /ʤ/ in English, due to English tendency towards that sound. However, there are a few words which do have /ʒ/ outside of French loanwords. Examples include pleasure /plɛʒɘɹ/