Voiced dental and alveolar implosives

Voiced alveolar implosive
ɗ
IPA Number162
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ɗ
Unicode (hex)U+0257
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Braille⠦ (braille pattern dots-236)⠙ (braille pattern dots-145)

The voiced alveolar implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɗ⟩. The IPA symbol is lowercase letter d with a rightward hook protruding from the upper right of the letter.

The voiced dental implosive may be found in the Jhangvi dialect of Punjabi and has the symbol ⟨ɗ̪⟩.[1][2]

  1. ^ Shackle 1976, p. 23.
  2. ^ Bahl 1936, p. 28.