Ezh (letter)

Ezh (letter)

Ezh (Ʒ ʒ), has its small letter used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), representing the voiced postalveolar fricative consonant. It is also called the "tailed z". Example: vision /ˈvɪʒən/. It is pronounced as the "s" in "treasure" or the "si" in the word "precision". (See also the Persian alphabet letter ژ.)

Ezh is used as a letter in some orthographies of Skolt Sami, both by itself, and with a caron (Ǯ ǯ). These denote partially voiced alveolar and post-alveolar affricates, respectively, broadly represented /dz/. It also appears in the orthography of some African languages, for example in the Aja language of Benin and the Daghbani language of Ghana, where the uppercase variant looks like a reflected sigma (Σ).

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