The voiced palatal implosive is a type of
consonant
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al sound, used in some
spoken language
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s. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA
The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London. It is designed to unify the individual language SAMPA alphabets, and ...
symbol is
J\_<. Typographically, the IPA symbol is a dotless lowercase letter ''j'' with a horizontal stroke that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter ''f'' (the symbol for the
voiced palatal stop) and a rightward hook (the diacritic for
implosives
Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism. That is, the airstream is controlled by moving the glottis downward in additio ...
). A very similar-looking letter, (an with a tail), is used in
Ewe for .
Features
Features of the voiced palatal implosive:
Occurrence
See also
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List of phonetics topics
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar e ...
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Voiceless palatal implosive
The voiceless palatal implosive is a rare consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based prima ...
Notes
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Implosives
Central consonants
Voiced oral consonants
Palatal consonants