How is ʧ pronounced?

/ʧ/ is pronounced without your tongue moving and with more air released than with /t/. It is similar to the sound of a sneeze, and the air released should be able to move a piece of paper or be felt on your hand five centimetres in front of your mouth.

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How to pronounce ɒ?

How to Produce /ɒ/? To produce it, drop the jaw just a little and round the lips, unlike the unrounded /ɑ/ sound. Push your lips together and make a short, voiced sound. As you can see in the picture, the mouth is slightly more open than the /æ/ sound and less rounded than when producing the /ɔ/ sound.

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How to pronounce dʒ?

To make the /dʒ/ sound:

Place the tip of your tongue just behind the hard ridge at the front of the top of your mouth. Vibrate your vocal cords, and push air forward out of your mouth. Stop the air completely at first, and then release it.

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How do you pronounce the Ŋ sound?

To make the /ŋ/ sound:

Lift the back of your tongue (like you're making a “k” sound) and place it against the soft palate at the back of your mouth. Vibrate your vocal cords. Do not let any air leave through your mouth; it should all leave through your nose.

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How do you pronounce ʤ and ʧ?

Introduction to /ʧ/ & /ʤ/
  1. = + = +
  2. /ʧ/ is made of /t/ and /ʃ/. Like a diphthong, these 2 sounds together make /ʧ/. ...
  3. /ʧ/ is unvoiced because both /t/ and /ʃ/ are unvoiced.
  4. /ʤ/ is made of /d/ and /z/. This sound is written as 'j', 'ge'; eg. ...
  5. /s/ and /ʃ/ are unvoiced. /z/ and /ʒ/ are voiced. ...
  6. /s/ is sometimes spelt 'ce'; eg.

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The /ʧ/ Sound

21 related questions found

What is the sound tʃ and dʒ?

These two are pronounced with exactly the same mouth position but /dʒ/ uses the voice, whereas /tʃ/ is just a sudden puff of air similar to a sneeze.

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Is it dʒ or ʒ?

Both sounds are made by pushing air between the lower teeth and the roof of the mouth, but dʒ begins with a brief "d" sound, and ʒ does not. The two sounds are similar, but the initial "d" in dʒ makes it a sharper sound.

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What type of sound is dʒ?

The /dʒ/ sound is one of the two affricate consonant sounds in American English. Note for geeks: the /dʒ/ sound is a palato-alveolar, voiced, affricate consonant.

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Is it ɑ or ɒ?

The trend, is that in all cases, the British IPA would use ɒ , while American would use ɑ . Now from my perspective, this is correct, Americans tend to elongate and turn it into more of an "aw" sound, while British English tends to keep it sharper.

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What sound is ƏƱ?

The /əʊ/ symbol is made up of the short vowel sounds /ə/ and /ʊ/, meaning your mouth moves from the totally relaxed or slack mouth position of /ə/ to the rounded position of /ʊ/ while the /əʊ/ sound is made.

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What English word has ɒ?

Example words containing /ɒ/: stop, hot, pop, cross, foreign, lobby, knowledge. To explore how to make the vowel /ɒ/ first try this general setting for /ɒ/ The lips are rounded though not as forward as for /ɔː/ and /uː/, the jaw is low creating quite a large resonant space in the mouth. The tongue is back, and low.

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What is the English dʒ?

The consonant /dʒ/ is a voiced, alveo-palatal, affricate consonant. Press the middle of your tongue between your alveolar ridge and your soft palate. Quickly move your tongue downward while forcefully pushing air out. The air in your mouth should stop before it is released.

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What does ʧ sound like in English?

/ʧ/ is pronounced without your tongue moving and with more air released than with /t/. It is similar to the sound of a sneeze, and the air released should be able to move a piece of paper or be felt on your hand five centimetres in front of your mouth.

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What is ʒ called?

Ezh (Ʒ ʒ) /ˈɛʒ/, also called the "tailed z", is a letter the lower case form of which is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), representing the voiced postalveolar fricative consonant.

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Is it oʊ or əʊ?

/ɒ/ is a short single sound made without the mouth moving. /əʊ/ is a diphthong -- a longer sound made of two sounds -- meaning that the mouth moves during production of the sound.

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What sounds are ɒ and ɔ :/?

The biggest difference between these two sounds is that /ɒ/ is a short vowel and /ɔ:/ is a long one. The mouth position is also slightly different, with the mouth in /ɔ:/ being slightly tighter and more rounded.

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Why is j pronounced dʒ?

The sound [dʒ] in Modern English is a late-comer, and was not significant in Old English. Old French [dʒ], which was more significant, derived from various (post-)Latin sources, including i~j (also *g plus front vowel). The English practice of writing <j> for [dʒ] was borrowed from French (as were words so spelled).

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What sounds does ʃ make?

The sound /ʃ/ is a voiceless, alveo-palatal, fricative consonant.
  • Lightly press the middle of your tongue between your alveolar ridge and your soft palate. The sides of your tongue should lightly touch your back upper teeth.
  • Breathe out and allow air to flow past your tongue.
  • Your vocal cords should not vibrate.

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Is the Ŋ sound voiced or voiceless?

The /ŋ/ phoneme is, made through the nose rather than the mouth and it is Voiced, which means you use your vocal cords, but it is defined by the position of your tongue, and is made with the flow of air through the mouth completely blocked.

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What is ʒ sound?

The [ʒ] sound is one of the least common consonants in English. English spelling has no specific way to spell this sound, but some uses of s, z, and g really represent a [ʒ]. The symbol [ʒ] is usually called "ezh" [ɛʒ] (but also sometimes "yogh"). It was often used in Old Irish and Old English manuscripts.

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What does Ö sound like?

Ö = O-Umlaut

To pronounce “ö” as you should, you need to form your lips as in “o” first, and again imagine somebody pulling on your lips. We can compare it with when you say “her” in English. The sound between the letters “h” and “r” is the sound you need.

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