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Main sound category: Fricatives
Sound category: voiced alveolar fricative
IPA symbol: z
Sounds in category: *z ⁿz z *z z zʲ zˁ zˁː zː
Occurs in 223 languages
That is in 45.33% of all languages
Occurs in: Mari Monguor Changzhou Rutul Chuvash Karen Lak Ormuri Moghol Komi Avar Sui Archi Hindi-urdu Itelmen Malagasy Burmese Burushaski Gelao Kawaiisu Mazahua Bribri Dakota Navajo Bakairi Akawaio Chipewyan Yupik Kunimaipa Fe?fe? Ogbia Dizi Ewe Amharic Socotri Igbo Doayo Shilha Awiya Dagbani Kullo Senadi Tarok Paez Turkish Lithuanian Bodo Uzbek Azerbaijani Tiddim chin Pashto Kirghiz German Greek Farsi Bashkir Nivkh Breton Brahui Vietnamese Ao Georgian Ahtna Kiowa Lugbara Isoko Hausa Hamer Tabi Mumuye Ik Songhai Dan Angas Zulu Kanuri Aghem Savosavo Bete Tigre Kpan Kpelle Bisa Kala lagaw ya !Xu Tampulma Alladian Lame Ngizim Kohumono Ga Neo-aramaic Bambara Kera Gwari Tera Birom Ewondo Azande Amo Bobo-fing Margi Aizi Maba Kolokuma ijo Bariba JKDutch JKGerman Testing Albanian_ Azerbaijani_ Berber_ Luxembourgish_ Dutch Persian Dari_Afghanistan Dari Highland chinantec Huave Karen English_American English Belarusian_ Bosnian_ Catalan (Central) Czech_ Hindi_ Swahili Kurmanji_ Latvian_ Polish_ Portuguese_ Swahili_ Tigrinya_ Ukrainian_ English_Australian Polish Hebrew Slovak Portuguese (Brasilian) Italian_UPSID Sorani Aari Abkhaz Serbian Croatian Urdu_Pakistan Arabic_Modern Standard Arabic Arabic_Moroccan_LAPSyD Arabic_Moroccan_JK Arabic_Moroccan Urdu_Ohala Tigrinya Belarusian_ Ukrainian_ Arabic_Moroccan_LAPSyD Arabic_Moroccan_JK Arabic_Moroccan Arabic_Moroccan_JK Arabic_Moroccan_JK Arabic_Modern Standard Arabic