Ź
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Ź (minuscule: ź) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in the Polish and Montenegrin alphabets, and in certain other languages:
- Slavic languages - usually the palatalized form of /z/
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- Polish language - [ʑ] (voiced alveolo-palatal fricative)
- Montenegrin language - along with the digraph "zj"
- In the Belarusian Łacinka for зь /zʲ/
- Lower Sorbian language [ʑ]
- In the Romanization of Pashto, it is used to represent voiced alveolar affricate (d͡z).
- In Emiliano-Romagnolo alphabet, it is used to represent voiced dental fricative [ð]. Depending on the various dialects, the pronunciation can be [ðz], or, under Italian influence, [dz], but the most common pronunciation is [ð].
Encodings
The HTML codes are:
- Ź for Ź (upper case)
- ź for ź (lower case)
The Unicode codepoints are U+0179 for Ź and U+017A for ź.
