Voiced palato-alveolar sibilant
The voiced fricative postalveolare ( a voiced, behind the alveoli educated fricative ) has in different languages following phonetic and orthographic realizations:
- German [ ʒ ]: g j and partly in French loanwords [ ʒ ] as in English loan words than [ dʒ ], in Germanized Freumdwörtern partly sch [ ʒ ] or dsch [ dʒ ] Example: Garage, Journal, Job, Jihad
- Occasion [ ək eɪʒn ʰ ], pleasure [ p ʰ leʒɚ ]
- Examples: jour [ ʒuʀ ], gîte [ ʒit ], gens [ ʒã ]