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Main sound category: Fricatives
Sound category: voiced alveolar fricative
IPA symbol: z
IPA description: voiced alveolar fricative
UPSID symbol: z
UPSID description: voiced alveolar sibilant fricative
Occurs in 65 languages
That is in 13.21% of all languages
Occurs in: !Xu Aghem Ahtna Aizi Alladian Amo Angas Ao Azande Azerbaijani Bambara Bariba Bashkir Bete Birom Bisa Bobo-fing Bodo Brahui Breton Dan Dari Dutch Ewondo Farsi Ga Georgian German Greek Gwari Hamer Hausa Ik Isoko Kala lagaw ya Kanuri Kera Kiowa Kirghiz Kohumono Kolokuma ijo Kpan Kpelle Lame Lithuanian Lugbara Maba Margi Mumuye Neo-aramaic Ngizim Nivkh Pashto Persian Savosavo Songhai Tabi Tampulma Tera Tiddim chin Tigre Turkish Uzbek Vietnamese Zulu