Ezh

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Ezh (Ʒ ʒ; EZH), also called the "tailed z", is a letter, notable for its use in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the voiced palato-alveolar fricative consonant. This sound, sometimes transcribed ⟨zh⟩, occurs in the pronunciation as in vision (), precision (), azure (), beige (), or pleasure (). Ezh is also used as a letter in some orthographies of Laz and Skolt Sami, both by itself, and with a caron (⟨Ǯ ǯ⟩). In Laz, these represent voiceless alveolar affricate /ts/ and its ejective counterpart /tsʼ/, respectively. In Skolt Sami they respectively denote partially voiced alveolar and post-alveolar affricates, broadly represented /dz/ and /dʒ/. It also appears in the orthography of some African languages, for example in the Aja language of Benin and the Dagbani language of Ghana, where the uppercase variant looks like a reflected sigma ⟨Σ⟩. It also appears in the orthography of Uropi. The voiced palato-alveolar fricative, the sound /ʒ/ represents in the International...

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