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A voiced palatal implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʄ⟩. Typographically, the IPA symbol is a dotless lowercase letter j with a horizontal stroke that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter f (the symbol for the voiced palatal stop) and a rightward hook (the diacritic for implosives). A very similar-looking letter, ⟨ƒ⟩ (an ⟨f⟩ with a tail), is used in Ewe for /ɸ/.
Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
It is a median consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream down the midline of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
The airstream mechanism is implosive (glottalic ingressive), which means it is produced by pulling air in by pumping the glottis downward. Since it is voiced, the glottis is not completely closed, but allows a pulmonic airstream to escape through it.
There is also a voiced post-palatal (or pre-velar) implosive. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for this sound, but it can be transcribed as ⟨ʄ̠⟩/⟨ʄ˗⟩[a] or ⟨ɠ̟⟩/⟨ɠ˖⟩.[b]
12Wilkes, A. (2001). "Northern and Southern Ndebele—Why harmonisation will not work". South African Journal of African Languages. 21 (3–4). doi:10.1080/02572117.2001.10587480. The source mentions it, which will be highlighted here: "The voiced velar implosive phoneme [ɠ] (written as k in the normal orthography as for instance in (7) below) which occurs in no other Nguni language than in Northern Ndebele. It is not known when and where Northern Ndebele has acquired this sound which occurs as a velar implosive before the back vowels /u/, /o/ and /a/ respectively and as a pre-velar implosive /ɠy/ (also written as gy in (7)) before front vowels."
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