voiced palatal approximant
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type of consonant used in many spoken languages
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Within Vinony's link graph, voiced palatal approximant is referenced by 3,862 other articles, and connects out to voiced alveolar lateral approximant, Devanagari and voiced alveolar nasal.
Vinony files it under Approximant consonants, Median consonants and Oral consonants.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Entity decimal
- & #106;
- Unicode hex
- U+006A
- X sampa
- j
- Braille
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- voiced consonant
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- IPA transcription
- j
- X-SAMPA code
- j
- Kirshenbaum code
- j
- IPA Braille
- ⠚
- RFE symbol
- j
- catalog code
- 153
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Encyclopedic overview
A voiced palatal approximant is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "y" sound in "young".
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨j⟩; the equivalent symbol in the Americanist phonetic notation is ⟨y⟩. In order to not imply that the approximant is spread as the vowel [i] is, it may instead be transcribed ⟨ʝ̞⟩. When this sound occurs in the form of a palatal glide it is frequently, but not exclusively, denoted as a superscript j ⟨ʲ⟩ in IPA.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “voiced palatal approximant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.