The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with (formerly the ligature ), or in some broad transcriptions , and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is dZ. Alternatives commonly used in linguistic works, particularly in older or American literature, are , , , and . It is familiar to English speakers as the pronunciation of in jump. For Albanian speakers, the sound is close to the expressed by the diagraph Xh. Features Features of the voiced postalveolar affricate: Occurrence Voiced postalveolar non-sibilant affricate Features Its place of articulation is postalveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue behind the alveolar ridge. Occurrence See also Index of phonetics articles Notes References External links Postalveolar consonants Affricates Pulmonic consonants Voiced oral consonants Central consonants