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Main sound category: Affricates
Sound category: voiced postalveolar affricate
IPA symbol: dʒ
IPA description: voiced postalveolar affricate
UPSID symbol: dZ
UPSID description: voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate
Occurs in 129 languages
That is in 26.22% of all languages
Occurs in: Ache Achumawi Acoma Aghem Alamblak Albanian Amharic Amo Andamanese Andoke Angas Arabic Arabic_Modern Standard Arabic Awiya Azerbaijani Bambara Bandjalang Batak Bats Beja Bengali_Calcutta Berta Bororo Brahui Bulgarian Burmese Burushaski Catalan (Central) Cayuvava Cofan Dagbani Dagur Dahalo Dari Dizi Dogon English English_American English_Australian Even Eyak Farsi Fe?fe? Fur Ga Hadza Hausa Hebrew Hindi-urdu Huari Hungarian Iai Iban Igbo Ik Indonesian Irish Italian Italian_UPSID Ivatan Jingpho Kanuri Kefa Kera Khalkha Kharia Khasi Kohumono Komi Kota Koya Kullo Kunama Kurdish Lahu Lithuanian Lua Luo Lushootseed Mambila Manchu Margi Mba-ne Moghol Monguor Moro Muinane Mundari Nanai Neo-aramaic NepaliOH Nera Noni Nubian Ormuri Papago Parauk Pashto Persian Polish Resigaro Romanian Rutul Sa'ban Saami Saliba Sama Swahili Tarok Teke Ticuna Tigre Tlapanec Tlingit Tulu Turkish Tuva Ukrainian Urdu_Pakistan Uzbek West makian Wintu Xiamen Yakut Yana Yawa Yoruba Yuchi Zulu