Voiced palatal implosive


A voiced palatal implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is. Typographically, the IPA symbol is a dotless lowercase letter j with a horizontal stroke that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter f and a rightward hook. A very similar-looking letter, , is used in Ewe for.

Features

Features of a voiced palatal implosive:

Occurrence

Post-palatal (pre-velar) implosive

There is also a voiced post-palatal 'implosive'. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for this sound, but it can be transcribed as / or /.

Features

Occurrence