Category
page 1Co-articulated consonants
voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant
consonant used in some oral languages
voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant
consonantal sound
voiceless palatal-velar fricative
The '''sj-sound' ( ) is a voiceless fricative phoneme found in the sound system of most dialects of Swedish. It has a variety of realisations, whose precise phonetic characterisations are a matter of debate, but which often feature distinct labialization. The sound is represented in Swedish orthography by a number of spellings, the most common of which are (from which the common Swedish name for the sound is derived), , , and (before front vowels) ; if considered in complementary distribution with , up to 65 different spellings for the phoneme have been identified in native words and loanwords
voiced labialized palatal approximant
consonantal sound
voiceless labio-velar approximant
consonantal sound
co-articulated consonant
consonants produced with two places of articulation