voiced palatal approximant
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type of consonant used in many spoken languages
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.