Ž
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Ž is: the 30th letter of the Bosnian and Croatian alphabet; the 31st letter of the Czech; the 19th letter of the Estonian; the 33rd letter of the Latvian; the 32nd letter of the Lithuanian; the 46th letter of Slovak; the 25th letter of the Slovenian and the 13th letter of the Turkmen alphabet. In addition, the character is also used as a transliteration of Cyrillic "Ж" in Macedonian (in 31st position), Serbian and Montenegrin (both in 30th position), and ocassionally in Bulgarian (with no special running order of Roman characters). It denotes a similar phoneme to the Portuguese and French J. Apart from Estonian and Turkmen, this is the final letter of the other alphabets.
It is formed by addition of a caron to the standard Z letter used in most alphabets based on Latin script and it is pronounced (IPA) /ʒ/ in all named alphabets except for Turkmen alphabet, where it is pronounced (IPA) /ʤ/. Like its Latin counterpart, the Cyrillic alphabet has a specific symbol: Ж.
[edit] References
- Pullum, Geoffrey K., Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press, 203.
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