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Main sound category: Fricatives
Sound category: voiced postalveolar fricative
IPA symbol: ʒ
IPA description: voiced postalveolar fricative
UPSID symbol: Z
UPSID description: voiced palato-alveolar sibilant fricative
Occurs in 73 languages
That is in 14.84% of all languages
Occurs in: !Xu Aari Aizi Albanian Aleut Alladian Amharic Angas Apinaye Archi Armenian Atayal Avar Azerbaijani Bakairi Bashkir Bats Breton Bulgarian Catalan (Central) Chuvash Dakota Dangaleat Dari Dizi English English_American English_Australian Farsi French Georgian German Hebrew Hindi-urdu Hmong Huari Hungarian Kabardian Kawaiisu Komi Kpan Kurdish Lak Lithuanian Maba Margi Mari Mazahua Mbum Mixe Mixtec Mumuye Navajo Neo-aramaic Ngizim Ocaina Ormuri Parauk Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese (Brasilian) Romanian Sango Shilha Socotri Tamasheq Tarok Tigre Tigrinya Turkish Ukrainian Yakut