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Also known as Z with acute

Ź (minuscule: ź) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. The letter appears in Polish, Montenegrin, Silesian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Wymysorys and Brahui, as well as in the Belarusian Latin alphabet, Ukrainian Latin alphabet and romanized Pashto.

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Grapheme.name
Z with acute
Grapheme.letter
Ź ź
Grapheme.image
Latin letter Z with acute - uppercase and lowercase.svg
Grapheme.imageclass
skin-invert-image
Grapheme.imagesize
200px
Grapheme.imagealt
Upper and lower case of Ź
Grapheme.script
Latin script
Grapheme.type
alphabet
Grapheme.language
Brahui language, Lower Sorbian language, Polish language, Romani language, Serbo-Croatian language, Silesian language
Grapheme.unicode
U+0179, U+017A
Grapheme.fam1
Z z
Grapheme.direction
Left-to-right
Grapheme.typedesc
ic

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ź
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Ź
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Ź (minuscule: ź) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. The letter appears in Polish, Montenegrin, Silesian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Wymysorys and Brahui, as well as in the Belarusian Latin alphabet, Ukrainian Latin alphabet and romanized Pashto.

== Usage == In Polish, the letter represents the voiced alveolo-palatal fricative ([ʑ]) sound. It is 31st letter of the Polish alphabet. Its names in the language are: ziet and z z kreską. The letter also appears in the digraph dź, which is pronounced as voiced alveolo-palatal affricate ([d͡ʑ]) sound.

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