Voiceless palatal approximant

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Voiceless palatal approximant
i̯̊
IPA Number 153 402A
Encoding
Entity (decimal) j​̊
Unicode (hex) U+006A U+030A
X-SAMPA j_0

The voiceless palatal approximant or the non-syllabic voiceless close front unrounded vowel is a type of consonantal sound, used in a few spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ j̊ ⟩, the voiceless homologue of the voiced palatal approximant.

It is found as a phoneme in Kildin Sami, in Jalapa Mazatec and in Moksha.

Features

Features of the voiceless palatal approximant: