The voiced postalveolar fricative is present as a phoneme only in loanwords: for example, garage . Phonetic is common in central and southern Italy as an intervocalic allophone of : gente 'people' but la gente "the people", ragione "reason".
The voiced postalveolar fricative is present as a phoneme only in loanwords: for example, garage . Phonetic is common in central and southern Italy as an intervocalic allophone of : gente 'people' but la gente "the people", ragione "reason".